Immigrant’s Death at Oklahoma Poultry Plant Highlights Dangerous Working Conditions

Immigrant’s Death at Oklahoma Poultry Plant Highlights Dangerous Working Conditions

It was just before 3 a.m. in March when the hum of machinery at the OK Foods poultry plant in Heavener was broken by a haunting scream, according to one worker.That night, the sanitation crew included 49-year-old Leovigildo Ramirez Castillo, a father and immigrant from Mexico. While working above a massive auger — a screw-shaped machine that strips meat from chicken bones — Ramirez slipped through a grated floor and fell into the blades, local m…