It was one of PPC’s outside consultants who discovered what had caused the increased
incidence of CTS. The company had always used a centralized approach to managing
safety and health. Responsibility for such tasks as measurement, inspection,
correction, and investigation was assigned to the safety manager, Joe Don Huttle. Huttle
had an excellent record during his 20 years in the poultry-processing industry, with the
last 5 spent at PPC. In fact, he was so well respected in the industry that his peers had
elected him president of a statewide safety organization. This, as it turned out, is where
PPC’s troubles began.