title: 3-D jobs and health disparities: The health implications of Latino chicken catchers' working conditions.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study uses qualitative data to describe the tasks performed by chicken catchers, their organization of work, and possible health and safety hazards encountered.
  
  
  METHODS
  Twenty-one Latino immigrant chicken catchers for North Carolina poultry-processing plants were interviewed to obtain their perceptions of the job and its hazards. Interviews were recorded and transcribed (n = 10) or detailed notes recorded (n = 11). Transcripts and notes were subjected to qualitative analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Chicken catching takes place in a highly contaminated and hazardous work environment. The fast pace of work, low level of control over work intensity, and piece rate compensation all result in high potential for work-related injury and illness, including trauma, electrical shock, respiratory effects, musculoskeletal injuries, and drug use. Workers receive little safety or job training.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Chicken catching is characterized by a work environment and organization of work that promote injury and illness.
authors.affiliation: Division of Public Health Sciences, Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157, USA. squandt@wakehealth.edu
authors.forename: Sara A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Quandt
authors.forename: Alice E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Arcury-Quandt
authors.forename: Emma J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Lawlor
authors.forename: Lourdes
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Carrillo
authors.forename: Antonio J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Marín
authors.forename: Joseph G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Grzywacz
authors.forename: Thomas A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Arcury
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D002645:Chickens; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants; D005525:Food-Processing Industry / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006166:Guatemala / Q000208:ethnology; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D008800:Mexico / Q000208:ethnology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009657:North Carolina; D016272:Occupational Health / Q000208:ethnology*; D036301:Qualitative Research; D012306:Risk; D012449:Safety; D012456:Salaries and Fringe Benefits; D012935:Social Justice; D016526:Workload; D055815:Young Adult