OSHA & its workers!

In chapter Eight of Fast Food Nation, "The most dangerous jobs", Eric Schlosser describes the dangers of the meat packing industries and the fatal effects the jobs inflicts upon its workers. More specifically, Schlosser elaborates on the intense on site injuries the workers suffer while companies would ignore these injuries. Due to the OSHA Company having an increase in injuries, they were inspected by factory inspectors to locate and fix these problems. As a result, of the growing problem,  in 1981 a new policy was adopted called the “Voluntary Compliance”, which basically meant instead of the industries having un announced visits, the inspectors would now have to look at an injury log that the company would keep. If the log was below a certain amount of injuries the inspectors would now have to leave the company alone. OSHA then made two logs; one for the government and another for themselves. The difference between these two logs was that the one for the government had a false number far less than the actual numbers the company actually had within the factory. “During a three month period in 1985, the first log recorded [1,800] injuries and illnesses at the plant. The OSHA log only recorded [160] a discrepancy of more than [1,000] percent (Schlosser 180). The difference was incredible between the two logs because the company was lying continuously .The contradiction here was the company not honoring the nations safety laws that were implemented. The contradiction more specifically was that although OSHA was said to be this enormous, up to standard complying with the law industry they were constantly lying to the government and themselves. So many workers were fatally injured on the job and few were reported. Therefore lying would be the core of the contradiction of the OSHA’s industry