Y'all seem to be willing to give this outfit a pass just because they're in agriculture. It sounds to me like this is no small-scale dairy farm with a few dozen cows, if those even exist today. This operation, like pretty much all dairies these days, is an industrial-scale operation. Exactly why shouldn't industrial farms be held to the same standards as other industries?
If a fourteen year old kid working unsupervised in a sheet metal stamping plant lost his hands in a press, you would be justifiably outraged. Yet a kid gets killed operating a dangerous piece of equipment at a dairy and it's OK. What's the difference?
And as for the dairy farmer not paying unemployment insurance, was he stiffing the state or was he really stiffing his employees? In the end, it's just another symptom of callousness towards his workers.
For what it's worth, I did work on the family farm as a teenager. I did put in 60 hour weeks in the summer. I did operate heavy farm and construction equipment, often unsupervised for hours at a time. And yes, I did survive with all my limbs intact. But not everyone I grew up with did.
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