Wearing wire mesh gloves, workers use a variety of knives and scissors to trim meat away from bone. An average line worker performing such tasks earns $7.80 an hour on a day shift and $7.90 an hour on a night shift. Workers are rotated every few hours to perform different tasks. This helps cut down on repetitive stress injuries, which affect the industry. Workers must perform their specific cutting task several hundred times an hour. (13 of 14)

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