Underground Slaughter LLC: Non-Compliance to Humane Livestock Handling in 2022 (USDA)
See the detail of the non-compliance of humane livestock handling that the USDA observed at the Underground Slaughter LLC slaughterhouse establishment in 2022.
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313.15(a)(1),313.15(a)(3)
HATS Category VIII Stunning Effectiveness: On 28 April 2022 at approximately 0720 hrs I, CSI REDACTED was observing stunning procedures at Establishment 51351. The first animal to be slaughtered for the day (lamb) was being manually restrained by two (2) plant employees during the stunning procedure. One (1) employee applied the stunning device (captive bolt) to the lamb’s head and the stun was ineffective in causing immediate insensibility. The employees lost control of the animal and it ran back into the holding pen bleeding from its nose and mouth. The establishment did not have a backup stunning device available and instead reloaded the same captive bolt device used for the initial stun and applied a second stunning attempt. The second attempt to stun also was ineffective and did not cause immediate insensibility, and again the employees lost manual restraint of the animal and had to retrieve it from the holding pen again. The employee performing the stunning again reloaded the captive bolt device and applied a third stun. The third stun rendered the animal insensible and it remained so thereafter. I informed the production supervisor REDACTED of the non-compliance and that I would be taking a regulatory control action. I placed US Reject tag #B33 648053 to the stunning area at 0728.
