Several people have written to inquire about recent stories surrounding a wave of industrial accidents at food processing plants all over the U.S. Indeed, there has been a significant increase in fires and explosions from furnaces, industrial fryers, boilers and some other rather odd incidents with aircraft hitting food processing.
Keep in mind that major industrial food processing facilities are generally located around major transportation hubs - large arteries for commercial trucking and railway lines for inbound good deliveries.
Yes, there has been an increase in industrial accidents at some major and regional food processing plants.
Industrial kitchens and massive food processing organizations were forced to increase food production on a scale that is almost unimaginable.
I'll look closely to see if there is an uptick in workers comp claims within the industrial food processing sector, but I suspect there is.
Does that explain all of the incidents? Maybe not, but the fact that U.S. food processing has been running beyond capacity, might put a better context on why that same specific segment of U.S. industrial output would be seeing more industrial accidents.
Another downstream consequence could be an uptick in food recalls as an outcome of increased bacteria within the food processing equipment, because the break-down-time, sanitation and hygiene might be impacted by excessive operational run times.
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