slaughterhouses still bear the primary burden of killing, cleaning, gutting and cutting the animals manually. Slaughterhouse workers suffer from a wide range on physical injuries such as accidental self-inflicted cuts or by neighboring workers, as well as muscle and joint problems in different parts of the body. Apart from the severe one-time incidents, many of the slaughterhouse workersù33 times the average of an industry in the U.S.ùhave injuries based on cumulative trauma of their work. Annually, over 25 percent of the workers, or the equivalent of 40,000 male and female workers, sustain serious injuries or die at
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