The state (Iowa) alone fined them $182,000 in violations just in 2008 alone, and the safety violations involved workers getting "involuntary amputations" of various body parts. Worker safety was almost non-existent, so that had to go to extremes to find workers who would tolerate those conditions (illegals). They often refused to let inspectors into the plant, and would stall until they could get it "looking good".
Do you have any links to this information?
Were there more accidents/amputations in the Agriprocessors facilities than occurred in other slaughterhouses? (I’m not saying there weren’t; I don’t know, as I never saw this issue raised before).
If the facility was so unsafe, why wasn’t it shut down by the state of Iowa? Was such an action ever raised by the state?