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Article: Profiles in safety and health: occupational hazards of meatpacking.
- Article from:
- Monthly Labor Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 1989
- Author:
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Martin E. Personick is an economist in the Division of Safety and Health Statistics, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Katherine Taylor-Shirley, an economist in the same division, prepared the data and analysis included from the Supplementary Data System.
Injury and illness rates in manufacturing are above the average for the total economy; within the manufacturing sector, some individual industry rates, such as those in meatpacking, are two to three times the all-manufacturing average
MARTIN E. PERSONICK AND KATHERINE TAYLOR-SHIRLEY
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