A 19-year-old farmworker from South Africa suffocated to death in a Delta farm's grain bin last year because of his employer’s negligence, according to a report and citations from the U.S. Department of Labor.
The teenager was working at Bare Bones Farms in Greenwood on an H-2A visa. A Mississippi Today investigation last year found farms across the Delta are increasingly relying upon white foreign workers from South Africa to work their fields through the visa program. READ MORE: White Delta farm owners are underpaying and pushing out Black workers The farm was issued a $90,000 fine this week following a federal investigation.
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