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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story on All Things Considered:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nhttp://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2016/08/20160810_atc_slaughterhouses_often_face_meager_safety_violations_critics_say.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the worst day of Greta Horner's life, she was dressed in a burlap robe, waiting by the window for her husband to come home from work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ralph Horner, or Ed as his family calls him, should've been pulling in the driveway any minute that morning in June 2014, home from his overnight shift as a maintenance employee at the beef plant in Greeley, Colorado. It's owned by JBS, the world's largest meatpacker, with its North American headquarters a short drive from the Horners' home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, three cars – one from the coroner's office, one from the sheriff's office, one from JBS – turned down the long, dirt driveway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They seemed to be going so slowly, and I thought this isn't good,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She met the cars at the gate, already filled with dread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They introduced themselves and I just said, 'Don't tell me. I don't even want to know. Don't tell me. Don't tell me.' Because I just knew.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ed had died a few hours earlier. He was working alone deep in the bowels of the plant on a piece of equipment. It caught his hair and the sleeve of his shirt and pulled him in. His clothing bunched up around his neck and mouth. There, trapped under a conveyor belt, he suffocated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/journal-advocate/obituary.aspx?pid=171302993\">He was 54\u003c/a>, and left behind his wife, three sons and a grandchild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the hundreds of thousands of people who prepare beef, pork and poultry in this country, the workplace is a hazardous place. \u003ca href=\"http://www.gao.gov/extracts/e6f051ceecfbe6208fc92de4fd782ed1/rId20_image2.png\">Meat and poultry processing plants are safer\u003c/a> than they were a decade ago, government statistics show. But in today's slaughterhouses, some workers pay a steep price to produce our meat, sometimes with their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The \u003c/em>(Modern) \u003cem>Jungle\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today's beef, pork, and poultry plants function though a sort of organized chaos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers use a mix of hydraulic saws, industrial blenders, marinade pumps, steel hooks, metal chains and conveyor belts to disassemble cattle, chickens and hogs, turning whole animals into cuts of meat. Line employees don smocks and chainmail to keep from cutting themselves or their coworkers. Mats line the floors to avoid slips on blood or water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://jbssa.com/about/locations/?cat=beef\">The Greeley facility\u003c/a>, which \u003ca href=\"http://jbssa.com/about/history/\">JBS took over in 2007\u003c/a> with its purchase of Swift Foods, is a behemoth in the beef processing industry. Originally built in 1958, the facility's employees are able to slaughter and process upward of 5,600 head of cattle each day. It takes more 3,000 people to keep it up and running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're trying to manage a small city,\" says Doug Schult, a JBS USA human resources executive. \"When you take machinery and all those people, and those knives, you've got an environment that is risky. So you've got to accept that the risk is there. You don't have to accept that people get hurt along with it though.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The industry has changed drastically since the 1906 publication of \u003cem>The Jungle\u003c/em>, Upton Sinclair's muckraking novel that revealed poor food safety and workplace conditions in the Chicago stockyards. But people still get hurt or get killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some 151 meat and poultry workers suffered fatal injuries from 2004 to 2013, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.gao.gov/assets/680/676796.pdf\">a recent Government Accountability Office report \u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"http://www.gao.gov/assets/680/676796.pdf\"> \u003c/a>w\u003ca href=\"http://www.gao.gov/assets/680/676796.pdf\">h\u003c/a>i\u003ca href=\"http://www.gao.gov/assets/680/676796.pdf\">c\u003c/a>h\u003ca href=\"http://www.gao.gov/assets/680/676796.pdf\"> \u003c/a>a\u003ca href=\"http://www.gao.gov/assets/680/676796.pdf\">l\u003c/a>s\u003ca href=\"http://www.gao.gov/assets/680/676796.pdf\">o\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://www.gao.gov/assets/680/676796.pdf\">f\u003c/a>o\u003ca href=\"http://www.gao.gov/assets/680/676796.pdf\">c\u003c/a>u\u003ca href=\"http://www.gao.gov/assets/680/676796.pdf\">s\u003c/a>e\u003ca href=\"http://www.gao.gov/assets/680/676796.pdf\">d\u003c/a> on the underreporting of injuries in this industry. Compare that to \u003ca href=\"http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/cfoi/all_worker.pdf\">the 3,737 manufacturing facility workers \u003c/a> who died on the job during that same period, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meat and poultry plants consistently report higher injury rates than the manufacturing industry overall, with beef and pork workers sustaining a higher rate of injuries and illnesses than poultry workers, according to U.S. Department of Labor data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_111352\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/08/gravestone_edoted_enl-9f541c37458876512f6c81c030b47ba0d3abb498.jpg\" alt='Ralph \"Ed\" Horner is buried a short drive from his rural Larimer County home.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" class=\"size-full wp-image-111352\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/08/gravestone_edoted_enl-9f541c37458876512f6c81c030b47ba0d3abb498.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/08/gravestone_edoted_enl-9f541c37458876512f6c81c030b47ba0d3abb498-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/08/gravestone_edoted_enl-9f541c37458876512f6c81c030b47ba0d3abb498-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/08/gravestone_edoted_enl-9f541c37458876512f6c81c030b47ba0d3abb498-768x511.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/08/gravestone_edoted_enl-9f541c37458876512f6c81c030b47ba0d3abb498-1440x959.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/08/gravestone_edoted_enl-9f541c37458876512f6c81c030b47ba0d3abb498-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/08/gravestone_edoted_enl-9f541c37458876512f6c81c030b47ba0d3abb498-960x639.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ralph \"Ed\" Horner is buried a short drive from his rural Larimer County home. \u003ccite>(Dan Boyce/Rocky Mountain PBS for Harvest Public Media)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Government safety regulators recognize the risk inherent in meatpacking. The Greeley plant is under the jurisdiction of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Denver office, and a subject for the team of inspectors there who check workplaces for violations of federal safety standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Embarrassingly Low' Fines\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ed Horner's death triggered a flurry of activity for those government regulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law required the conveyor belt he was working on to be covered with a guard, meant to prevent such accidents. If OSHA catches it on an inspection, an absent guard brings a fine. A missing machine guard remains a highly cited violation from OSHA, especially in heavy industries like manufacturing, construction, and meatpacking. Both OSHA officials and industry representatives agree, they're easy to miss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Horner's case, \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=NEWS_RELEASES&p_id=27114\">OSHA scolded JBS in a press release\u003c/a> after the incident, saying the company should have known better. His death could've been prevented, the release said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with the strong language, the final fine for the violations that led to Ed Horner's death totaled $38,500.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yes, it's embarrassingly low,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.nelp.org/expert/senior-fellow-worker-safety-health/\">Debbie Berkowitz\u003c/a>, a fellow with the National Employment Law Project, and a former senior OSHA official. \"And because of that it's unclear what kind of deterrent effect it really has.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compare that to other federal agencies that levy fines, Berkowitz says. If that same plant was found to be polluting a nearby river, the fines from the Environmental Protection Agency could be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Greeley plant had a history of missing or lacking machine guards. \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/pls/imis/establishment.inspection_detail?id=311908982\">During an inspection in 2008\u003c/a>, the facility racked up serious violations for lacking machine guards, among other citations. Fines for those violations totaled $22,000, settled down from an original fine of $32,100. Inspectors recorded machine guard violations in 2012 as well, earning the company \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=NEWS_RELEASES&p_id=24132\">$83,414 in penalties\u003c/a>. After contesting the violations, JBS \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/pls/imis/establishment.inspection_detail?id=794801.015\">ended up paying $64,668\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://relatorioanual.jbs.com.br/en/scenario/\">In 2014, JBS S.A\u003c/a>., the Brazilian parent company for its North American arm, reported about $38 billion in net revenue, and earned about $650 million in profit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OSHA decided to make the company's problems with machine guarding even more public in 2016. As a part of the settlement related to Ed Horner's death, OSHA placed the company on a publicly-available list of companies that have \"demonstrated indifference\" to federal safety standards, called the \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=DIRECTIVES&p_id=4503\">Severe Violator Enforcement Program\u003c/a>. JBS will remain on it for three years and be subject to more inspections and more OSHA oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $38,500 fine JBS paid for the violations that led to Ed Horner's death was higher than most, says Herb Gibson, OSHA area director for its Denver office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency assesses fines based on violations to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owasrch.search_form%3Fp_doc_type=OSHACT\">Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970\u003c/a>, not based on injuries or fatalities, Gibson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first time in 25 years, OSHA fines are \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/penalties.html\">set to increase in August 2016\u003c/a>. In 1990 other federal agencies were given permission to raise penalty amounts tied to the rate of inflation. OSHA wasn't given that permission, and Berkowitz says that's left the agency unable to financially punish bad actors. Any increase to OSHA penalties must go through Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for acting as a watchdog to the country's hundreds of meat and poultry plants, large and small, OSHA officials, current and past, say they're limited by the agency's tight resources. About 2,000 inspectors are tasked with keeping the country's millions of workplaces safe and illness-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unfortunately, it would take OSHA a hundred years to get to every workplace, just once to inspect,\" Debbie Berkowitz says. \"So really a lot is up to the company.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Four Deaths\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early in 2014, JBS executives in Greeley were looking over their injury rates and feeling optimistic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last several years they'd been able to limit certain problems, measured using a rate based on how many serious injuries workers sustained and caused them to miss work. Since JBS took over the Greeley plant in 2007, the rate had been declining. It was good news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then came the summer of 2014, when JBS and its affiliated companies in North America had four worker deaths in a five-month span, stretching from the summer into early fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The summer of 2014 told us that while the figures said one thing, something more systemic, more foundational broke,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://jbssa.com/about/leadership/\">Chris Gaddis\u003c/a>, a JBS human resources executive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two months after Ed Horner's death in Colorado, tragedy struck again at the Pilgrim's Pride poultry plant in Nacogdoches, Texas, when employee Bobby Beall \u003ca href=\"http://www.meatpoultry.com/articles/news_home/Business/2014/08/Pilgrims_worker_dies_at_plant.aspx?ID=%7BCECF99F6-B7FA-4BCE-A221-FF919C28091B%7D\">was electrocuted\u003c/a>. JBS USA owns a controlling interest in the poultry processor with plants scattered across the southern U.S. \u003ca href=\"http://www.obitsforlife.com/obituary/955604/Beall-Bobby-Joe.php\">Beall's obituary\u003c/a> notes he enjoyed hunting and fishing, and was known around the poultry facility for sharing candy with his coworkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One month later in September, a JBS employee in Alberta, Canada, Christopher Harper, succumbed to severe burns he sustained from \u003ca href=\"http://www.calgarysun.com/2014/08/21/pipe-burst-wounds-employee-at-brooks-plant\">a burst steam pipe\u003c/a> while working at the company's beef plant in the small town of Brooks. Being a devout hockey fan, \u003ca href=\"http://www.hffs.com/memsol.cgi?user_id=1427096\">Harper's obituary\u003c/a> requests donations in his memory be sent to the local junior league, the Brooks Bandits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, Pablo Lopez Romero of Mount Pleasant, Texas died while working at the Pilgrim's Pride plant there. \u003ca href=\"http://bizwest.com/employee-killed-pilgrims-pride-texas-plant/\">A large piece of ice\u003c/a> fell on Romero's neck and chest, killing him. \u003ca href=\"http://www.currywelborn.com/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=2752298&fh_id=12129\">Lopez Romero's obituary\u003c/a> says he left behind a wife of 35 years and two grandchildren.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a string of tragic events, each one exposing hazards and safety lapses at the plants involved, and a problem that would take much longer to address than simply adding new guards to machinery or rolling out a new training regimen. JBS had a cultural problem, and executives agreed it would take more than additional OSHA visits to fix it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No fine could've created as much change and momentum towards improvement as losing a team member,\" Gaddis says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't need OSHA to come in and find this stuff, we need to find it ourselves,\" Schult adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Blind Spots In The Plant\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ed Horner died in a secluded maintenance room, tucked away in a portion of the plant few employees move through. He had climbed underneath a moving conveyor belt. JBS supervisors and executives simply hadn't identified it as a hazard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It involved guarding of a piece of equipment that we had not, frankly, focused on in the past,\" Schult says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only was JBS losing workers in that fivemonth span in 2014, but safety blind spots were staying hidden until tragedy struck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Realizing that a certain amount of complacency and comfort in their own safety protocols may have led to a situation that put a worker at risk, Chris Gaddis, the HR exec, says the company reacted, calling in a third-party risk assessment team to find additional hazards, and looked at changing internal policies to encourage reporting safety problems, rather than stifle them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years JBS had functioned under a \"cardinal rule\" policy, where a list of rules guided employees on what to do to stay safe on the job. Break a rule, and you're fired. Zero tolerance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But employees were understandably hesitant to come forward if they saw or participated in unsafe activities, knowing their report could get themselves, or their coworkers terminated. That led to a situation where injuries and unsafe actions were covered up and underreported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[The cardinal rule policy] was intended to create an environment that upheld safety, but it had this unintended consequence of undermining safety,\" Gaddis says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now employees are given a strike when breaking one of the rules, and instead of being fired they're given the ability to learn from a mistake, even act as a safety ambassador for other employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company also realized that to find unseen, lurking hazards it needed to be less insular, more welcoming of new sets of eyes. The Greeley plant has often been a tour stop for Colorado business groups. In June 2015 it was opened \u003ca href=\"http://www.kunc.org/post/inside-world-s-largest-food-company-you-ve-probably-never-heard\">for the first time\u003c/a> to a sizable group of journalists. More eyes, more inspections, more points of view should mean a safer plant, Schult says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_111353\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/08/the-conveyor-belt_edited_enl-db042fa682bb9bc872f8a116ad9fd0caf175893e.jpg\" alt=\"An OSHA photograph shows changes made to the conveyor belt at the JBS beef processing plant in Greeley, Colorado, that killed Ed Horner. It's now covered in a metal mesh.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1499\" class=\"size-full wp-image-111353\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/08/the-conveyor-belt_edited_enl-db042fa682bb9bc872f8a116ad9fd0caf175893e.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/08/the-conveyor-belt_edited_enl-db042fa682bb9bc872f8a116ad9fd0caf175893e-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/08/the-conveyor-belt_edited_enl-db042fa682bb9bc872f8a116ad9fd0caf175893e-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/08/the-conveyor-belt_edited_enl-db042fa682bb9bc872f8a116ad9fd0caf175893e-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/08/the-conveyor-belt_edited_enl-db042fa682bb9bc872f8a116ad9fd0caf175893e-1440x1079.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/08/the-conveyor-belt_edited_enl-db042fa682bb9bc872f8a116ad9fd0caf175893e-1180x884.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/08/the-conveyor-belt_edited_enl-db042fa682bb9bc872f8a116ad9fd0caf175893e-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An OSHA photograph shows changes made to the conveyor belt at the JBS beef processing plant in Greeley, Colorado, that killed Ed Horner. It's now covered in a metal mesh. \u003ccite>(Luke Runyon/Harvest Public Media)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"To me that was the biggest learning that came out of this. We're still missing some of these things that we should be seeing, how can we not be seeing them?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More Than A Statistic\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All it took was one unseen trap for Ed Horner to lose his life. One piece of wire mesh over that spinning conveyor belt could've saved his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Horners' lives were intimately connected to meatpacking. The couple met in a beef plant back in the early 1980s, both working on the floor of a small plant in Sterling, Colorado. Greta took the job because it paid better than waiting tables or clerking at a gas station. Yes, it had added dangers, but it paid the bills, and gave her a living wage, the same calculation the hundreds of thousands of meatpacking workers make today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After years of working as an electrician outside the beef industry, that's inevitably what took Ed back to the business shortly before he died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately what surprised her the most was just how preventable her husband's death actually was. She hopes leaders at JBS learn a lesson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They need to realize that everybody that works there is a human being with a life and it's not just a statistic, it's a person,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Their employees aren't cattle that go through the chutes. They're people with families.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Luke Runyon reports for \u003ca href=\"http://harvestpublicmedia.org/\">Harvest Public Media\u003c/a> and is based at member station KUNC in Greeley, Colo.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cem>Copyright 2016 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She met the cars at the gate, already filled with dread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They introduced themselves and I just said, 'Don't tell me. I don't even want to know. Don't tell me. Don't tell me.' Because I just knew.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ed had died a few hours earlier. He was working alone deep in the bowels of the plant on a piece of equipment. It caught his hair and the sleeve of his shirt and pulled him in. His clothing bunched up around his neck and mouth. There, trapped under a conveyor belt, he suffocated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/journal-advocate/obituary.aspx?pid=171302993\">He was 54\u003c/a>, and left behind his wife, three sons and a grandchild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the hundreds of thousands of people who prepare beef, pork and poultry in this country, the workplace is a hazardous place. \u003ca href=\"http://www.gao.gov/extracts/e6f051ceecfbe6208fc92de4fd782ed1/rId20_image2.png\">Meat and poultry processing plants are safer\u003c/a> than they were a decade ago, government statistics show. But in today's slaughterhouses, some workers pay a steep price to produce our meat, sometimes with their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The \u003c/em>(Modern) \u003cem>Jungle\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today's beef, pork, and poultry plants function though a sort of organized chaos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers use a mix of hydraulic saws, industrial blenders, marinade pumps, steel hooks, metal chains and conveyor belts to disassemble cattle, chickens and hogs, turning whole animals into cuts of meat. Line employees don smocks and chainmail to keep from cutting themselves or their coworkers. Mats line the floors to avoid slips on blood or water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://jbssa.com/about/locations/?cat=beef\">The Greeley facility\u003c/a>, which \u003ca href=\"http://jbssa.com/about/history/\">JBS took over in 2007\u003c/a> with its purchase of Swift Foods, is a behemoth in the beef processing industry. Originally built in 1958, the facility's employees are able to slaughter and process upward of 5,600 head of cattle each day. It takes more 3,000 people to keep it up and running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're trying to manage a small city,\" says Doug Schult, a JBS USA human resources executive. \"When you take machinery and all those people, and those knives, you've got an environment that is risky. So you've got to accept that the risk is there. You don't have to accept that people get hurt along with it though.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The industry has changed drastically since the 1906 publication of \u003cem>The Jungle\u003c/em>, Upton Sinclair's muckraking novel that revealed poor food safety and workplace conditions in the Chicago stockyards. But people still get hurt or get killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some 151 meat and poultry workers suffered fatal injuries from 2004 to 2013, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.gao.gov/assets/680/676796.pdf\">a recent Government Accountability Office report \u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"http://www.gao.gov/assets/680/676796.pdf\"> \u003c/a>w\u003ca href=\"http://www.gao.gov/assets/680/676796.pdf\">h\u003c/a>i\u003ca href=\"http://www.gao.gov/assets/680/676796.pdf\">c\u003c/a>h\u003ca href=\"http://www.gao.gov/assets/680/676796.pdf\"> \u003c/a>a\u003ca href=\"http://www.gao.gov/assets/680/676796.pdf\">l\u003c/a>s\u003ca href=\"http://www.gao.gov/assets/680/676796.pdf\">o\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://www.gao.gov/assets/680/676796.pdf\">f\u003c/a>o\u003ca href=\"http://www.gao.gov/assets/680/676796.pdf\">c\u003c/a>u\u003ca href=\"http://www.gao.gov/assets/680/676796.pdf\">s\u003c/a>e\u003ca href=\"http://www.gao.gov/assets/680/676796.pdf\">d\u003c/a> on the underreporting of injuries in this industry. Compare that to \u003ca href=\"http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/cfoi/all_worker.pdf\">the 3,737 manufacturing facility workers \u003c/a> who died on the job during that same period, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meat and poultry plants consistently report higher injury rates than the manufacturing industry overall, with beef and pork workers sustaining a higher rate of injuries and illnesses than poultry workers, according to U.S. Department of Labor data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_111352\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/08/gravestone_edoted_enl-9f541c37458876512f6c81c030b47ba0d3abb498.jpg\" alt='Ralph \"Ed\" Horner is buried a short drive from his rural Larimer County home.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" class=\"size-full wp-image-111352\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/08/gravestone_edoted_enl-9f541c37458876512f6c81c030b47ba0d3abb498.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/08/gravestone_edoted_enl-9f541c37458876512f6c81c030b47ba0d3abb498-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/08/gravestone_edoted_enl-9f541c37458876512f6c81c030b47ba0d3abb498-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/08/gravestone_edoted_enl-9f541c37458876512f6c81c030b47ba0d3abb498-768x511.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/08/gravestone_edoted_enl-9f541c37458876512f6c81c030b47ba0d3abb498-1440x959.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/08/gravestone_edoted_enl-9f541c37458876512f6c81c030b47ba0d3abb498-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/08/gravestone_edoted_enl-9f541c37458876512f6c81c030b47ba0d3abb498-960x639.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ralph \"Ed\" Horner is buried a short drive from his rural Larimer County home. \u003ccite>(Dan Boyce/Rocky Mountain PBS for Harvest Public Media)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Government safety regulators recognize the risk inherent in meatpacking. The Greeley plant is under the jurisdiction of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Denver office, and a subject for the team of inspectors there who check workplaces for violations of federal safety standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Embarrassingly Low' Fines\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ed Horner's death triggered a flurry of activity for those government regulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law required the conveyor belt he was working on to be covered with a guard, meant to prevent such accidents. If OSHA catches it on an inspection, an absent guard brings a fine. A missing machine guard remains a highly cited violation from OSHA, especially in heavy industries like manufacturing, construction, and meatpacking. Both OSHA officials and industry representatives agree, they're easy to miss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Horner's case, \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=NEWS_RELEASES&p_id=27114\">OSHA scolded JBS in a press release\u003c/a> after the incident, saying the company should have known better. His death could've been prevented, the release said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with the strong language, the final fine for the violations that led to Ed Horner's death totaled $38,500.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yes, it's embarrassingly low,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.nelp.org/expert/senior-fellow-worker-safety-health/\">Debbie Berkowitz\u003c/a>, a fellow with the National Employment Law Project, and a former senior OSHA official. \"And because of that it's unclear what kind of deterrent effect it really has.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compare that to other federal agencies that levy fines, Berkowitz says. If that same plant was found to be polluting a nearby river, the fines from the Environmental Protection Agency could be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Greeley plant had a history of missing or lacking machine guards. \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/pls/imis/establishment.inspection_detail?id=311908982\">During an inspection in 2008\u003c/a>, the facility racked up serious violations for lacking machine guards, among other citations. Fines for those violations totaled $22,000, settled down from an original fine of $32,100. Inspectors recorded machine guard violations in 2012 as well, earning the company \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=NEWS_RELEASES&p_id=24132\">$83,414 in penalties\u003c/a>. After contesting the violations, JBS \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/pls/imis/establishment.inspection_detail?id=794801.015\">ended up paying $64,668\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://relatorioanual.jbs.com.br/en/scenario/\">In 2014, JBS S.A\u003c/a>., the Brazilian parent company for its North American arm, reported about $38 billion in net revenue, and earned about $650 million in profit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OSHA decided to make the company's problems with machine guarding even more public in 2016. As a part of the settlement related to Ed Horner's death, OSHA placed the company on a publicly-available list of companies that have \"demonstrated indifference\" to federal safety standards, called the \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=DIRECTIVES&p_id=4503\">Severe Violator Enforcement Program\u003c/a>. JBS will remain on it for three years and be subject to more inspections and more OSHA oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $38,500 fine JBS paid for the violations that led to Ed Horner's death was higher than most, says Herb Gibson, OSHA area director for its Denver office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency assesses fines based on violations to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owasrch.search_form%3Fp_doc_type=OSHACT\">Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970\u003c/a>, not based on injuries or fatalities, Gibson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first time in 25 years, OSHA fines are \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/penalties.html\">set to increase in August 2016\u003c/a>. In 1990 other federal agencies were given permission to raise penalty amounts tied to the rate of inflation. OSHA wasn't given that permission, and Berkowitz says that's left the agency unable to financially punish bad actors. Any increase to OSHA penalties must go through Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for acting as a watchdog to the country's hundreds of meat and poultry plants, large and small, OSHA officials, current and past, say they're limited by the agency's tight resources. About 2,000 inspectors are tasked with keeping the country's millions of workplaces safe and illness-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unfortunately, it would take OSHA a hundred years to get to every workplace, just once to inspect,\" Debbie Berkowitz says. \"So really a lot is up to the company.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Four Deaths\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early in 2014, JBS executives in Greeley were looking over their injury rates and feeling optimistic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last several years they'd been able to limit certain problems, measured using a rate based on how many serious injuries workers sustained and caused them to miss work. Since JBS took over the Greeley plant in 2007, the rate had been declining. It was good news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then came the summer of 2014, when JBS and its affiliated companies in North America had four worker deaths in a five-month span, stretching from the summer into early fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The summer of 2014 told us that while the figures said one thing, something more systemic, more foundational broke,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://jbssa.com/about/leadership/\">Chris Gaddis\u003c/a>, a JBS human resources executive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two months after Ed Horner's death in Colorado, tragedy struck again at the Pilgrim's Pride poultry plant in Nacogdoches, Texas, when employee Bobby Beall \u003ca href=\"http://www.meatpoultry.com/articles/news_home/Business/2014/08/Pilgrims_worker_dies_at_plant.aspx?ID=%7BCECF99F6-B7FA-4BCE-A221-FF919C28091B%7D\">was electrocuted\u003c/a>. JBS USA owns a controlling interest in the poultry processor with plants scattered across the southern U.S. \u003ca href=\"http://www.obitsforlife.com/obituary/955604/Beall-Bobby-Joe.php\">Beall's obituary\u003c/a> notes he enjoyed hunting and fishing, and was known around the poultry facility for sharing candy with his coworkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One month later in September, a JBS employee in Alberta, Canada, Christopher Harper, succumbed to severe burns he sustained from \u003ca href=\"http://www.calgarysun.com/2014/08/21/pipe-burst-wounds-employee-at-brooks-plant\">a burst steam pipe\u003c/a> while working at the company's beef plant in the small town of Brooks. Being a devout hockey fan, \u003ca href=\"http://www.hffs.com/memsol.cgi?user_id=1427096\">Harper's obituary\u003c/a> requests donations in his memory be sent to the local junior league, the Brooks Bandits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, Pablo Lopez Romero of Mount Pleasant, Texas died while working at the Pilgrim's Pride plant there. \u003ca href=\"http://bizwest.com/employee-killed-pilgrims-pride-texas-plant/\">A large piece of ice\u003c/a> fell on Romero's neck and chest, killing him. \u003ca href=\"http://www.currywelborn.com/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=2752298&fh_id=12129\">Lopez Romero's obituary\u003c/a> says he left behind a wife of 35 years and two grandchildren.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a string of tragic events, each one exposing hazards and safety lapses at the plants involved, and a problem that would take much longer to address than simply adding new guards to machinery or rolling out a new training regimen. JBS had a cultural problem, and executives agreed it would take more than additional OSHA visits to fix it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No fine could've created as much change and momentum towards improvement as losing a team member,\" Gaddis says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't need OSHA to come in and find this stuff, we need to find it ourselves,\" Schult adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Blind Spots In The Plant\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ed Horner died in a secluded maintenance room, tucked away in a portion of the plant few employees move through. He had climbed underneath a moving conveyor belt. JBS supervisors and executives simply hadn't identified it as a hazard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It involved guarding of a piece of equipment that we had not, frankly, focused on in the past,\" Schult says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only was JBS losing workers in that fivemonth span in 2014, but safety blind spots were staying hidden until tragedy struck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Realizing that a certain amount of complacency and comfort in their own safety protocols may have led to a situation that put a worker at risk, Chris Gaddis, the HR exec, says the company reacted, calling in a third-party risk assessment team to find additional hazards, and looked at changing internal policies to encourage reporting safety problems, rather than stifle them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years JBS had functioned under a \"cardinal rule\" policy, where a list of rules guided employees on what to do to stay safe on the job. Break a rule, and you're fired. Zero tolerance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But employees were understandably hesitant to come forward if they saw or participated in unsafe activities, knowing their report could get themselves, or their coworkers terminated. That led to a situation where injuries and unsafe actions were covered up and underreported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[The cardinal rule policy] was intended to create an environment that upheld safety, but it had this unintended consequence of undermining safety,\" Gaddis says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now employees are given a strike when breaking one of the rules, and instead of being fired they're given the ability to learn from a mistake, even act as a safety ambassador for other employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company also realized that to find unseen, lurking hazards it needed to be less insular, more welcoming of new sets of eyes. The Greeley plant has often been a tour stop for Colorado business groups. In June 2015 it was opened \u003ca href=\"http://www.kunc.org/post/inside-world-s-largest-food-company-you-ve-probably-never-heard\">for the first time\u003c/a> to a sizable group of journalists. More eyes, more inspections, more points of view should mean a safer plant, Schult says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_111353\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/08/the-conveyor-belt_edited_enl-db042fa682bb9bc872f8a116ad9fd0caf175893e.jpg\" alt=\"An OSHA photograph shows changes made to the conveyor belt at the JBS beef processing plant in Greeley, Colorado, that killed Ed Horner. It's now covered in a metal mesh.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1499\" class=\"size-full wp-image-111353\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/08/the-conveyor-belt_edited_enl-db042fa682bb9bc872f8a116ad9fd0caf175893e.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/08/the-conveyor-belt_edited_enl-db042fa682bb9bc872f8a116ad9fd0caf175893e-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/08/the-conveyor-belt_edited_enl-db042fa682bb9bc872f8a116ad9fd0caf175893e-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/08/the-conveyor-belt_edited_enl-db042fa682bb9bc872f8a116ad9fd0caf175893e-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/08/the-conveyor-belt_edited_enl-db042fa682bb9bc872f8a116ad9fd0caf175893e-1440x1079.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/08/the-conveyor-belt_edited_enl-db042fa682bb9bc872f8a116ad9fd0caf175893e-1180x884.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/08/the-conveyor-belt_edited_enl-db042fa682bb9bc872f8a116ad9fd0caf175893e-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An OSHA photograph shows changes made to the conveyor belt at the JBS beef processing plant in Greeley, Colorado, that killed Ed Horner. It's now covered in a metal mesh. \u003ccite>(Luke Runyon/Harvest Public Media)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"To me that was the biggest learning that came out of this. We're still missing some of these things that we should be seeing, how can we not be seeing them?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More Than A Statistic\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All it took was one unseen trap for Ed Horner to lose his life. One piece of wire mesh over that spinning conveyor belt could've saved his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Horners' lives were intimately connected to meatpacking. The couple met in a beef plant back in the early 1980s, both working on the floor of a small plant in Sterling, Colorado. Greta took the job because it paid better than waiting tables or clerking at a gas station. Yes, it had added dangers, but it paid the bills, and gave her a living wage, the same calculation the hundreds of thousands of meatpacking workers make today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After years of working as an electrician outside the beef industry, that's inevitably what took Ed back to the business shortly before he died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately what surprised her the most was just how preventable her husband's death actually was. She hopes leaders at JBS learn a lesson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They need to realize that everybody that works there is a human being with a life and it's not just a statistic, it's a person,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Their employees aren't cattle that go through the chutes. They're people with families.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Luke Runyon reports for \u003ca href=\"http://harvestpublicmedia.org/\">Harvest Public Media\u003c/a> and is based at member station KUNC in Greeley, Colo.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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