Four USPS workers dead at Palmetto facility amid safety crisis and privatization push

Four postal workers died at Palmetto facility in two years (Demarcus Little, Russell Scruggs Jr., Eric Smith, Shannon Barnes); additional deaths reported at other facilities including Nick Acker in Detroit and Lucy Diaz in New York.

In the span of two years, four workers have died at a single postal facility in Palmetto — not through isolated misfortune, but through the slow erosion of safety, training, and institutional care that follows when an institution is being quietly dismantled. The deaths of Demarcus Little, Russell Scruggs Jr., Eric Smith, and Shannon Barnes are markers in a longer story about what happens when public infrastructure is treated as a liability rather than a commons. Across the United States, the postal system is being reshaped — through austerity, privatization contracts, and pension raids — into

Four USPS workers dead at Palmetto facility amid safety crisis and privatization push

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