A discomfort survey in a poultry-processing plant

Stuart-Buttle, Carol

doi:10.1016/0003-6870(94)90031-0

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“…No speci®c upper back symptom region was found. Many questionnaires used in occupational health surveillance of, e.g., musculoskeletal disorders and in epidemiology studies apply rear-view body diagrams to de®ne the delimitation between dierent regions [7, 17, 18,23,31]. The ®ndings in this study suggest that such body diagrams should bilaterally separate a neck section and a more peripheral shoulder (joint) plus upper-arm section from a central shoulder section so as to enhance speci®city (Fig.…”

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Characteristics of pain drawings in the neck-shoulder region among the working population

Toomingas¹

1999

International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health

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Pain drawings of neck and shoulder symptoms among the middle-aged general working population most usually focused on the neck-shoulder angles with a symmetrical left-right distribution. The number of separate symptom loci and their total area, left-right distribution, and symmetry were characteristics associated with symptom chronicity and severity or signs of tenderness in the neck-trapezius region.

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Characteristics of pain drawings in the neck-shoulder region among the working population

Toomingas¹

1999

International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health

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“…High levels of morbidity among poultry-processing workers have been reported for years by a number of sources, including researchers, journalists and workers [Armstrong et al, 1982;Hall, 1989;Kiken et al, 1990;Anthan, 1991;Joseph and Bloswick, 1991;Stuart-Buttle, 1994;Young et al, 1995;Yassi et al, 1996;Campbell, 1999 We responded to a request from women in a small nonprofit advocacy organization to evaluate health effects of employment on black women working in poultry processing in northeastern North Carolina. Workers were primarily concerned about upper extremity musculoskeletal problems that they felt were often dismissed in the workplace and attributed by medical providers to childcare responsibilities or medical conditions including obesity and mental health problems.…”

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Musculoskeletal symptoms among poultry processing workers and a community comparison group: Black women in low‐wage jobs in the rural South

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Epling

Pompeii

et al. 2007

American J Industrial Med

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The findings add to the documentation of occupational health concerns among vulnerable workers employed in poultry processing in our state; in this economically depressed area of rural northeastern North Carolina poultry processing is the largest single employer of women. On a larger scale, the potential magnitude of upper extremity morbidity among women employed in poultry processing should be viewed with the knowledge that poultry processing is a growing industry in the U.S. with work done largely by blacks and immigrants.

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“…Instead of providing a rest for workers' hands, job rotation may actually lead to a greater incidence of cumulative trauma dis orders in poultry plants, in which almost all jobs are similar and require 10,000 to 20,000 cuts a day (156)(157)(158). OSHA has entered into settlement agreements with other poultry processors similar to that in the Perdue case.…”

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Playing Chicken with People: The Occupational Safety and Health Consequences of Throughput über Alles

Linder¹

1995

Int J Health Serv

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The political-economic and legal analysis of regulation in this article argues that the speed of work on disassembly lines in poultry processing plants, the fastest growing factory employment in the United States, is de facto regulated not by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the agency charged with protecting workers, but, perversely, by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In arrogating to itself the power to set line speeds in connection with its inspection of processed carcasses, the Department of Agriculture has one-sidedly promoted chicken oligopolies' interests by accommodating their drive to produce as much product as quickly and cheaply as possible (throughput über alles) and especially without regard to the incidence of repetitive stress disorders associated with high-speed machine-paced manual production. In contrast, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has failed either to assert its statutory authority over this vital determinant of workers' well-being or to persuade any administrative or judicial tribunal that it possesses such authority. Consequently, the article concludes, the health and safety of 200,000 low-paid and largely unorganized, female, and non-white workers continue to be held hostage to the self-valorization needs of capital and the state's cheap food policy.

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A discomfort survey in a poultry-processing plant

Cited by 28 publications

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Characteristics of pain drawings in the neck-shoulder region among the working population

Characteristics of pain drawings in the neck-shoulder region among the working population

Musculoskeletal symptoms among poultry processing workers and a community comparison group: Black women in low‐wage jobs in the rural South

Playing Chicken with People: The Occupational Safety and Health Consequences of Throughput über Alles

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