Even workers who feel indebted to Packers Sanitation Services Inc. for employing them acknowledge they have been put in situations that made them scared or uncomfortable.

Workers for an industrial sanitation company with among the worst rates of workplace injuries in the country feel conflicted because they were grateful that the company hires people with felony convictions.Joe Glough / for NBC NewsMay 8, 2021, 3:00 AM PDTByAmy Martyn
A 911 call from the Tyson chicken processing plant in Baker Hill, Alabama, came late in the afternoon on March 3, 2020. When the paramedic arrived and saw Carlos Lynn’s body, still by the machine that Lynn had been cleaning, he knew there was nothing to do but call the coroner.
Lynn, 39, had been sanitizing the chicken chiller, an approximately 50-foot-long machine that fills its own room at the chicken plant. Its key feature is a device made of blades…
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