TUCKER, Ga. — The incidence of nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses in the poultry sector, which includes slaughter and processing, remains at an all-time low, according to the 2015 Injury and Illness Report released Oct. 28 by the Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
The total recordable poultry processing illness and injury rate for 2015 was 4.3 cases per 100 full-time workers (per year), the same rate as 2014, and lower than the 2015 rate of 4.7 for the entire food manufacturing sector.
Poultry processing's 2015 rate of 4.3 represents an 81. . .
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