Imperial Foods chicken processing plant fire

September 3, 1991 fire erupts at Imperial Foods chicken processing plant in Hamlet North Carolina killing 25 workers, nearly half of them Black women. When it is revealed that the owners of the sweatshop routinely locked the plant’s doors to prevent employee theft, there is very little response from the federal or state government or organized labor.

 

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