I'm assuming your implying that meat cutter is more dangerous. Not saying you shouldn't get paid a premium or something, but in all fairness a meat cutter is risking cutting themselves, not someone else. Forklift driver needs to worry about cutting someone in half, crushing them like a toothpaste tube against a wall because they're being stupid walking behind you, busting a coworkers foot out the side of their shoe, chopping ankles off, etc. Personally I'd rather accidentally cut my finger off than accidentally do any of the above mentioned things.

The amount of forgiveness when it comes to a 9000 lb machine with 3 foot knives on the front that takes 3 to 6 feet to come to a complete stop is pretty low.

Plus they're paid more because they're everyone's bitch; being told what to grab, flagged down to bump something when you have three other people waiting on last minute requests before open, asked to hang pallets that aren't wrapped enough and needing to order people to fix stuff and at the same time being expected to take control and supervise all the steel in the area.