That’s the way it works. It’s a risk management and mitigation strategy for companies. You hiring contractors and offload the liability.
From what I understand, and IANAL(with the best of em) we’d have to change the laws to go after companies for their contractor’s liability/negligence.
I think you’d be able to go after Perdue or seaboard if you could prove they were grossly negligence or derelict or knowingly hired this contractorbecause they used kids.
But they can play that legal “plausible deniability” card otherwise.