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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- State occupational safety regulators say fines against Agriprocessors Inc. for numerous safety and health violations have been reduced.
Agri Star’s Postville plant sued for water-quality violations The water tower at the Agri Star meat processing plant in Postville on Monday, May 11, 2020. (Fernando Garcia-Franceschini/KCRG) (KCRG) ...
City of Postville, Iowa. (Photo via Google Earth) A nonprofit advocacy group is suing Agri Star Meat & Poultry of Postville for alleged violations of the federal Clean Water Act.
POSTVILLE -- After reports of an uptick in COVID-19 cases, a strike team tested more than 400 employees at a Postville kosher beef plant. According to an press release from Agri Star, 463 workers ...
The Agri Star meat and poultry processing plant in Postville, Iowa, had the most cases of EPA enforcement of water pollution, air pollution and other negligence charges in the state of Iowa. The ...
Nearly a dozen children worked under strenuous and hazardous conditions at a pork processing plant in Iowa, the U.S. Department of Labor announced following an investigation. The 11 children hired ...
The complaint also said the janitorial company employed 15 children at a Perdue Farms meat packing plant in Accomac, Virginia. The company hired children as young as 13 years old.
In majority-white Iowa, most Postville residents are people of color, with more than 40 percent identifying as Hispanic. Many work at Agri Star Meat and Poultry, the town’s largest employer.