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Federal Safety Inspectors Hit Immigrant Tobacco Sweatshops With Hazard Fines

A worker shows how swollen his hands would get after long shifts packing thousands of tubes of loose HotHead Grabba tobacco.

Federal workplace health and safety inspectors have found more than two dozen fire, electrical, respiratory and sanitary hazards at tobacco factories in Brooklyn and Queens where immigrant workers complained about substandard pay and conditions. HotHead Grabba, which packages tubes of loose ground tobacco leaves sold in smoke shops and bodegas around the New York region, […]

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