As U.S. pork plant speeds up slaughtering, workers report more injuries

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One of America's leading pig slaughterhouses is running faster than ever as meatpackers hustle to keep pork in grocery stores during the COVID-19 pandemic. Plant worker Hector Ixquier says it's time to slow down.

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CHICAGO - One of America’s leading pig slaughterhouses is running faster than ever as meatpackers hustle to keep pork in grocery stores during the COVID-19 pandemic. Plant worker Hector Ixquier says it’s time to slow down.

His new job is also physically taxing, and a doctor recommended rest and avoiding certain tasks at work, Ixquier said in an interview. “I’m thankful for the opportunity,” he said of the new gig, “but it’s still too fast.” Seaboard, which didn’t respond to questions about Ixquier, said employee health is a top priority. The company, a subsidiary of Kansas-based Seaboard Corp, works to improve processes and equipment and hires additional employees to help ensure each worker’s load is manageable and safe, said Seaboard spokesman David Eaheart.

The USDA said that it isn’t considering a rollback of its elimination of pork line speeds. But it said the agency is “closely examining” how the new pork inspection system was developed.Slaughterhouse closures due to outbreaks last spring, record-large U.S. pork exports in 2020 and consumers stockpiling food during the pandemic have run down inventories in commercial freezers across the United States. Total U.S.

Company data show an uptick in injuries. The Seaboard plant in 2020 reported five lacerations on the slaughtering floor that required paid medical treatment outside of the plant such as stitches, a three-year high, according to the company. That compares to one laceration claim in 2019, zero in 2018, and five in 2017.

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I missed the comma on first read but was somehow not surprised by what I read

Might want to slow it down?

Evil bass turds.

Solution: don’t depend on meat for your protein. Eat plants.

And as winter hits, more trees lose their leaves. Great fear mongering headline. By the way the labor boards won't do a thing unless there is big money to be made. They don't care. Would be a great story for you to research how many complaints in a year go ignored.

Is it the 'U.S. pork plant' one of the many owned by China or the one owned by that wealthy South American guy?

Really glad you guys didn’t forget that comma. Good work

Yeah... they don't care.

There's the motto for the United States, we kill faster. 🤦

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