HATTIESBURG, Miss. − A 16-year-old boy was killed last week while working at a Mar-Jac Poultry plant in Mississippi, authorities said, marking the third death at the plant since 2020.
The incident occurred around 8 p.m. Friday at the factory located in Hattiesburg, a city in the southern portion of the state near the coast. Police were called to the scene and began an investigation into the boy’s death, a spokesperson for Hattiesburg Police Department said in a news release.
Citing the ongoing investigation, officials with Mar-Jac Poultry declined to comment on the details of what happened, a spokesperson at the company’s headquarters in Gainesville, Georgia, said Tuesday.
