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Trident Seafoods Corp - Akutan Plant

Plant

Trident Seafoods Corp - Akutan Plant

Site

address
73 Trident Way
city
Akutan
region
Alaska
postalCode
99553
country
United States
Website

Crimes & Concerns

  1. Labor & Human Rights
  2. Environment

Trident Seafoods Corp - Akutan Plant is directly associated with labor & human rights issues such as worker death and environmental issues such as general pollution.

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Summary of crew member deaths and potential beriberi cases
The Trident Seafoods Corp - Akutan Plant is associated with at least one crew member death.
Labor & Human Rights
A comment posted to Indeed in 2019 spoke about the risks to health posed by the job, “they will force you to work even if you get sick,” and the implications of employees needing hospital access while working for a company that has failed to assist in medical evacuation, “A lot of people died there because of that.” One worker died in January 2021 for reasons that went unreported, according to Anchorage Daily News. In a Facebook comment in 2021, one worker at this plant said that her employers were not allowing anyone to leave the island even if they were COVID-negative. “This is worse than jail,” said another commenter, writing in Croatian. “What they are doing to you is mental abuse," said another.
Environment
A comment posted to Indeed in 2019 spoke about the risks to health posed by the job—“they will force you to work even if you get sick,”—and the implications of employees needing hospital access while working for a company that has failed to assist in medical evacuation, “A lot of people died there because of that.” In 2019, the Alaska Workers’ Compensation Appeals Commission issued a final decision in the case of an Arabic-speaking employee who claimed that his work at the Trident plant in Akutan caused his hearing loss. One worker died in January 2021 for reasons that went unreported, according to Anchorage Daily News. In a Facebook comment in 2021, one worker at this plant said that her employers were not allowing anyone to leave the island even if they were Covid-negative. “This is worse than jail,” said another commenter, writing in Croatian. “What they are doing to you is mental abuse,” said another.

Reporting

A comment posted to Indeed in 2019 spoke about the risks to health posed by the job—“they will force you to work even if you get sick,”—and the implications of employees needing hospital access while working for a company that has failed to assist in medical evacuation, “A lot of people died there because of that.”1 In 2019, the Alaska Workers’ Compensation Appeals Commission issued a final decision in the case of an Arabic-speaking employee who claimed that his work at the Trident plant in Akutan caused his hearing loss.2 One worker died in January 2021 for reasons that went unreported, according to Anchorage Daily News.3 In a Facebook comment in 2021, one worker at this plant said that her employers were not allowing anyone to leave the island even if they were Covid-negative.4 “This is worse than jail,” said another commenter, writing in Croatian. “What they are doing to you is mental abuse,” said another.5

Between 2020 and 2025, Trident Seafoods’ Akutan Shore plant was the subject of two “informal enforcement actions” for environmental violations including of the Clean Water Act.6

Stink Radius

Trident Seafoods Corp - Akutan Plant
DistancePeople
5 miles: 10,581
3 miles: 6,620
1 mile: 2,042
0.5 miles: 874
* individuals under the age of 15

At least 800 people lived within a half mile of this plant while more than 10,500 lived within a five-mile radius according to 2025 data from World Pop, a research institute based at the University of Southampton. This matters because it gives a sense of how many neighbors experience the quality of life concerns and health impacts of the foul stench of rotting fish and other toxic chemicals released into the air.