A Cargill meat distribution facility in Mount Crawford, Virginia has logged 2.6 million work hours without a lost-time injury dating back to April 2008. The facility, which employs 150 people, ships more than 400 million points of turkey and cooked meat products each year.
Cargill’s turkey agricultural team in Missouri will be recognized by the company, as well as by state and federal officials, for reaching 1.4 million work hours without a lost time injury—a period of nearly five years.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will hold a meeting of the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health’s Temporary Workers Group Wednesday in Washington D.C.
California prosecutors charged Bumble Bee Foods LLC and two employees Monday with willfully violating worker safety rules in relation to the 2012 death of an employee who was cooked to death after being trapped in an industrial oven.
The North American Meat Institute recognized 135 meat and poultry plants for their achievements in reaching high levels of worker safety performance as the industry continues its effort to reduce occupational injury.
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