Pilgrim’s Pride fined $87K in safety violations

GREELEY — As Greeley-based chicken processor Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. (Nasdaq: PPC) considers new acquisitions, the company has racked up hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines from the federal government due to repeated safety violations.

Pilgrim’s Pride reached a settlement with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in October to pay $86,500 in fines from safety violations at the company’s chicken processing facility in De Queen, Ark., Department of Labor spokesman Juan Rodriguez said.

Pilgrim’s Pride had disputed the original $170,000 fines it faced following a 2013 OSHA inspection at the Arkansas facility. OSHA reduced the fines…