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HOLLY, Colo.—A Colorado cantaloupe grower who was implicated following an outbreak of listeria that killed 30 people last year is now in trouble with the U.S. Department of Labor.
The federal agency fined grower Eric Jensen more than $4,000 in civil penalties for failing to provide safe migrant worker housing. The allegations were not linked to the outbreak.
The agency says Jensen Farms charged migrant workers for housing that had overcrowded rooms without beds, windows that did not open, a lack of laundry facilities, a lack of smoke detectors and unsanitary conditions.
Jensen said Thursday he didn’t know they were migrant workers when he rented people rooms for a month and the fine was unwarranted.