A federal investigation has found that Lancaster meat processing plant allowed eight minor-aged employees to work outside of federally allowed hours and engage in hazardous work.
U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division investigators found Marksbury Farm Foods LLC — a retail and wholesale processor of beef and pork products — employed seven workers in slaughterhouse operations and an eighth worker to clean its floor, in violation of federal child labor provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act, which forbids workers under 18 from doing most jobs in meat and poultry slaughtering, processing and packing establishments. Two of the minors, investigators learned, were under age 16.