Posted by Ken Macfarlane on April 25, 2012 at 11:31:26 from (142.166.168.2):
In Reply to: Re: child labor rules posted by fergienewbee on April 25, 2012 at 11:06:55:
This was started under the last administration, changing the party won't matter, there is a unusually high number of kids who die on farms vs other jobs kids work at.
I don't agree with how they are proposing to reduce the risk but I do agree something should be done. I'm guessing they took a chart with what kids were doing when killed on a farm and highlighted the top 10 or whatever and wrote the bill to prevent kids from doing those things.
I doubt it looked into it much deeper.
I had a friend killed on a farm when she was 14, she had just finished cleaning a dairy hay mow, pushing hay down into the aisle, her dad had just pushed the hay out with the skidsteer. Last bit she pushed down, she came down too, head onto the clean concrete.
The punishment that man put himself through the rest of his life is more than any government could have given out. But still it makes me think, why does a business have to have safety rules while a farm is still pretty much free to do whatever?
Fear of getting sued limits what I let the hired kids do, nowadays none of them have seen any of the equipment before, don't know how it works or the risks involved.
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