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Tyson Foods To Pay Maximum Fine Following Employee Death

Tyson Foods To Pay Maximum Fine Following Employee Death | RTT News

Tyson Foods Inc. (TSN: News ) is being ordered to pay the maximum fine for violating worker safety regulations, with the violations ultimately resulting in the death of a worker at the company's River Valley Animal Foods plant in Texarkana, Arkansas.

The company was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court in Arkansas to pay $500,000, the maximum criminal fine as well as serve one-year probation.

According to the court documents filed in the case, Tyson used high-pressure steam processors called hydrolyzers at plants to convert feathers into meal.Read more.

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