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NIOSH Probe Of Ergo Issues In Poultry Plant Finds 'Significant' Problems, OSHA Says


April 21, 2015 at 04:16 PM
NIOSH's recent Health Hazard Evaluation (HHE) of a poultry plant in Maryland found “significant problems” related to musculoskeletal disorders, according to OSHA, which lauds the research agency's evaluation program in general and indicates that results of its probes would broadly benefit stakeholders, though without saying whether such findings could be used specifically for enforcement or rulemaking activity.

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