JBS has been the target of several labor lawsuits by Brazil’s Labor Prosecutor’s Office (Ministério Público do Trabalho – MPT) over a lack of safety and accidents that occurred in its meatpacking plants, according to Repórter Brasil. The report states that one worker had his arm caught in a machine during cleaning operations in Mato Grosso do Sul state, another had his hand severed in a pig grinder in Paraná state, and a mechanic died after falling into a grinding machine in São Paulo.