Moyers Exposé Tonight at 9:00

[Jordan Barab]

Tonight on PBS (9:00 in DC. Check local listings), Bill Moyers' Journal and Exposé will do a report on Worker Safety based on the Charlotte Observer's recent series on the plight of poultry workers and underreporting of injuries and illnesses (the subject of the House Education and Labor Committee's June 19 hearing.) Appearing in the program will be Bob Whitmore, who was also one of the witnesses at the hearing.

Injury rates reported at America's poultry plants have dropped dramatically in recent years, and so have workplace safety inspections. Are regulators rewarding companies for inaccurate reporting of injuries? BILL MOYERS JOURNAL and EXPOSÉ: AMERICA'S INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS go inside America's poultry industry, which employs almost a quarter million workers nationwide, to show the reality of working conditions and to investigate how official statistics showing a drop in workplace injuries may have been the result of deceptive reporting.

More on the program here: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/06272008/profile.html

The Charlotte Observer series is here: http://www.charlotte.com/poultry/

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Jordan Barab