A teenage worker died in a poultry plant. His mother is suing the Georgia-based company that hired him

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February 6th, 2024

A sign stands outside the U.S. Department of Labor's headquarters, May 6, 2020, in Washington. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration found numerous safety violations in its investigation of the July 2023 workplace accident that caused the death of Duvan Pérez, a Guatemalan teenager who had been a contract worker at the Mar-Jac Poultry plant in Hattiesburg, Miss., the agency said in a news release on Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

The mother of a 16-year-old who died in a workplace accident at a Mississippi poultry factory is suing the companies that hired and employed him, accusing them of failing to follow safety standards that could have prevented his death.

In court papers filed at the Forest County Circuit Court last week, attorneys for Edilma Perez Ramirez said Mar-Jac Poultry skirted safety protections, leading to the death of her son Duvan Perez. The lawsuit follows a January report by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration that declared numerous safety violations related to the death of the teenager, who immigrated to Mississippi from Guatemala years ago.

“Mar-Jac and its affiliates have a long and sordid history of willful disregard for worker safety,” the lawsuit reads.

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