One of the most dangerous jobs a person can have in America is to work at a slaughterhouse or meatpacking facility. The working environments in these types of facilities are incredibly hazardous and result in numerous injuries among workers each year. Things like high-speed production lines, lack of training, and repetition of the same motion over long periods of time frequently cause injuries among workers. However, these injuries could be prevented if slaughterhouses and meatpacking facilities took more safety precautions for their workers. The countless injuries and deaths occurring in slaughterhouses would decrease if companies would create a safer working environment for their employees. One of the main reasons for the injuries caused in slaughterhouses and meatpacking facility is the speed of the production lines. Slaughterhouses make production lines run at fast speeds to increase the amount of …show more content…
Slaughterhouse and meatpacking companies hire workers to do a specific task for a long duration of time. This means that the workers at slaughterhouses repeat the same motion continuously for an incredibly long period of time. Production lines force workers to repeat the same motion even more often because of the incredibly high speeds they run on (“Slaughterhouse Workers”). These motions can get repetitive and cause injuries such as carpal tunnel syndrome, trigger finger syndrome, back problems, shoulder problems, broken bones, and even amputated fingers (“Food Processing & Slaughterhouses”). They also result in many lacerations among workers who accidentally cut themselves or the person around them as they’re working. If companies had a better system employed or reduced the speed of the production line, employees would not be forced to repeat the same motion over and over again and the number of injuries would reduce