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Egg Farm Poisoned Over 1,000 People with Salmonella

BaddestBusinessBureau — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:12:46 -07:00

DeCoster Egg Farms of Iowa infected over 1,000 people with Salmonella last year which led to a massive egg recall. The farms owned by Jack DeCoster include the Wright County Egg, Quality Egg, and Hillandale Farms all of which have horrible safety records. DeCoster got a lot of bad press over this last year because of the size of the recall and his horrible record of cutting corners. Jack's son Peter DeCoster runs DeCoster Egg Farms of Iowa.
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OSHA Fined Maine Contract Farming for Safety Violations

BaddestBusinessBureau — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 08:06:54 -07:00

Maine Contract Farming was fined by OSHA in 2002 for multiple safety violations including unispected fire extinguishers, defective eye washing equipment,unsanitary showers, fall hazards, electrical hazards, unsafe roofing, and asbestos. The company had previously been violated for exposing workers to dangerous collapsing buildings in mutiple incidents including a barn collapse in 1999.
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Maine Contract Farming Fined for Animal Cruelty

BaddestBusinessBureau — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 07:21:53 -07:00

In 2010 Maine Contract Farming agreed to pay $34,674.11 in fines for animal cruelty because of how they treated their chickens. The treatement included the use of what some people call "battery cages" and the use of those has since been banned by several states. Maine Contract Farming is a DeCoster Egg Farm owned by Jack DeCoster.
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Maine Contract Farming Fined for Endangering Workers

BaddestBusinessBureau — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 07:42:21 -07:00

Maine Contract Farming was busted by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for endangering workers by making them work in a building that had partially collapsed under the weight of snow and ice. They were sent into the building to recover eggs and brace the rest of it before it could collapse down on them. Fortunately for the workers the rest of the building did not come down on top of them.
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