#injuries

Again and again workers told me that they are under tremendous pressure not to report injuries. The annual bonuses of plant foremen and supervisors are often based in part on the injury rate of their workers. Instead of crating a safer workplace, these bonus schemes encourage slaughterhouse managers to make sure that accidents and injuries go unreported. Missing fingers, broken bones, deep lacerations and amputated limbs are difficult to conceal from authorities. But the dramatic and catastrophic injuries in a slaughterhouse are greatly outnumbered by less visible, though no less debilitating, ailments: torn muscles, slipped disks, pinched nerves. ↗

— Eric Schlosser

#meat #slaughterhouse #food

There are a lot of good memories, and because I was injured, during the rehab, I met my wife. The tennis was very good but the injuries were good for something too. ↗

— Richard Krajicek

#during #good #i #injured #injuries

I have had shoulder injuries in the past, but usually it's from training. ↗

— Warren Cuccurullo

#i #in the past #injuries #past #shoulder

People saw me as being heroic, but I was no more heroic than I was with other injuries I had, like the lacerated kidney I suffered during the 1990 World Series. It's just that people haven't known anyone with a lacerated kidney, but everyone can relate to someone with cancer. ↗

— Eric Davis

#being #cancer #during #everyone #had

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#dust #injuries #marble #write #your

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#cannot #destroyed #either #generously #heavy

Many injuries and deaths can be prevented through an understanding of the dangers of power lines, electrical appliances, extension cords, and lightning. ↗

— Richard Neal

#cords #dangers #deaths #electrical #extension

The ABA works tirelessly in its efforts involving the first line of defense: the prevention of burn injuries. ↗

— Richard Neal

#defense #efforts #first #injuries #involving

The number of electrical injuries cared for in hospitals in the US is estimated at as many as 50,000; the cost of these injuries on the US economy is estimated at over one billion dollars per year. ↗

— Richard Neal

#cared #cost #dollars #economy #electrical

I've had two or three injuries when with England and it's been a bit bizarre. ↗

— Jamie Redknapp

#bit #bizarre #england #had #i