Six Poles

Texas · USA · School

This place near the interstate at El Paso, Texas was used as a slaughter site for animals earlier in the twentieth century.

A woman who worked there was killed by the equipment, described as a machine that was not powered, which in that industry means something operated by hand or by weight and every bit as dangerous.

She is who is reported.

Slaughterhouse work was, and remains, among the most dangerous employment in the United States. Injury rates in the industry are consistently among the highest of any occupation, and in the early twentieth century there was effectively no regulation, no guarding on equipment and no compensation for the people it maimed.

A woman doing that work at El Paso in that period would have been poor, and probably Mexican or Mexican American.

The site is beside a major road.

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Hvor ligger Six Poles?

Six Poles ligger i Texas, USA.

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