To acknowledge the 18-month milestone, the plant will serve a prime rib dinner to employees working all three shifts on Oct. 9. It’s been a year and a half since the most recent lost-time injury at Cargill’s pork-processing plant in Beardstown, Ill. The plant in southern Illinois is celebrating 6 million work hours without a
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Read more →“The key to avoiding lower-back pain is keeping pressure off your lower lumbar discs,” says Tadhg O’Gara, M.D., an orthopedic surgeon at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C. Lower-back pain is the No. 1 cause of job-related disability in the United States, and one of the leading causes of lost workdays. Only headaches
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