The company operates a chicken processing plant which employs approximately 500 employees at the facility and has approximately 11,000 employees company-wide. On January 15, 2014, an OSHA Compliance Safety and Health Officer conducted a planned programmed inspection. During the inspection, while at the chicken cut-up area in the facility, the CSHO observed two employees on either side of a metal table using motorized saws to cut chickens in half. The rotating shafts between the motors and the saw blades were unguarded. The shafts were less than 7 feet above the ground.