WASHINGTON — The incidence of occupational injuries and illnesses within the poultry sector’s slaughter and processing workforce has fallen below all general industry, manufacturing and food manufacturing levels for the first time since the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics began recording injuries and illnesses information in 1994, the Joint Poultry Industry Safety & Health Council noted in a release.
The poultry industry’s rate of 2.6 injuries per 100 full-time workers was below the rate of 4.7 for similar agricultural industries and lower than 3.6 for the entire food manufacturing sector. . .
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