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Two N.C. poultry workers develop rare skin condition
Story Date: 5/29/2012
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Source: Michael Fielding, MEATINGPLACE, 5/28/12
Joint swelling, itching and pain in the hands of two poultry workers is the result of repeated injuries to the skin and tissue, according to researchers from Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, N.C. The men’s rare skin condition, known as pachydermodactyly, was discovered as part of a larger skin disease study of more than 500 Latino immigrant poultry workers, according to a Reuters report. The men worked as a chicken catcher and chicken hanger in North Carolina.
Between 1994 and 2010, the OSHA Total Recordable Injury and Illness rate has decreased by 73 percent for poultry processing facilities, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
“Contrary to what was reported in this study, the poultry industry’s illness and injury rate is well below all animal slaughter and processing and statistically the same as the rate for the entire food manufacturing sector,” Tom Super, vice president of communications for the National Chicken Council, told Meatingplace. “Without additional medical knowledge of the workers and their individual working conditions, drawing conclusions about the cause of this particular dermatological condition is unfounded.”
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