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Tyson foods, the nation's largest poultry-processing company with profits of $403 million in 2004, was penalized for the deaths of two men who died in a vat of decomposing chicken parts from exposure to methane gas and for other violations. the fine was what percent of its profits?

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The penalty in that case was just around $4 million.

$4 mil/$43 mil = .093 %

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