Meatpacking Worker's Degloving Qualifies as Schedule Injury

The Iowa Court of Appeals upheld a determination that a worker’s degloving injuries to his arm and leg were schedule injuries. Mecene Laguerre worked for JBS USA Holdings Inc. at a meatpacking facility. His job normally involved cutting the tongues of hog carcasses, but one day in October 2021, Laguerre was ordered to work a different position as a skinner. The skinner checks hog carcasses for feces. If a carcass were contaminated, Laguerre was supposed to flag it, and his co-workers would remove the hog from the line to clean it. When trying to remove a flagged hog, on...