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As U.S. pork plant speeds up slaughtering, workers report more injuries By Tom Polansek and P.J. Huffstutter Measures installed to help slow the spread of coronavirus at the Seaboard Foods pork processing plant in Guymon CHICAGO (Reuters) – One of America’s leading pig slaughterhouses is running faster than ever as meatpackers hustle to keep pork in grocery stores during the COVID-19 pandemic. Plant worker Hector Ixquier says it’s time to slow down. Ixquier said he sought medical treatment in January for tendons he strained in his right arm while draining blood from pigs in a Seaboard Foods pork plant in Guymon, Oklahoma.

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