Via online. 5 pages., Introduces an award-winning newspaper series published in the Charlotte Observer from February 10-15, 2008. The series reported "how N.C. poultry giant House of Raeford Farms hid injuries from federal regulators, blocked injured workers from seeing doctors and hauled others to work - hours after surgery for broken bones and severed fingers."
Through this article, the author was named recipient of the 2007 Plant Pathology Journalism Award from the American Phytopathological Society. Accompanying news release from the Society describes the award criteria and includes a response from the recipient.