How do they match: Slaughterers and Meat Packers

  • Boning Room Worker
  • Cold Storage Worker

  • Perform nonroutine or precision functions involving the preparation of large portions of meat. Work may include specialized slaughtering tasks, cutting standard or premium cuts of meat for marketing, making sausage, or wrapping meats. Work typically occurs in slaughtering, meat packing, or wholesale establishments.

  • Saw, split, or scribe carcasses into smaller portions to facilitate handling.
  • Shave or singe and defeather carcasses, and wash them in preparation for further processing or packaging.
  • Slaughter animals in accordance with religious law, and determine that carcasses meet specified religious standards.
  • Slit open, eviscerate, and trim carcasses of slaughtered animals.
  • Tend assembly lines, performing a few of the many cuts needed to process a carcass.
  • Wrap dressed carcasses or meat cuts.

  • Process animal carcasses.