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The owner of a meat business in western Michigan was ordered to pay $1,143
“Two months later, we wouldn’t even be here,” the judge said, noting that the teen soon would have turned 18 years old.
“Ionia County is a farming county, and I know a lot of people in this county view children working, sometimes around dangerous machinery, as part of growing up,” [the judge] said.
He said the boy was warned to never put his hand inside the grinder.
What the FUCK
And if conservatives get their way the victims ages will keep going down
He said the boy was warned to never put his hand inside the grinder.
He said the boy was warned not to fall into the thresher. Why did he fall into the thresher?
It's like one of those Ernest Hemingway one-sentence stories, that all by itself tells you 100% of what you need to know.
“Ionia County is a farming county, and I know a lot of people in this county view children working, sometimes around dangerous machinery, as part of growing up,” [the judge] said.
I married a farm girl and live in a small town surrounded by farming communities. This is unfortunately very true. Harvest time comes you need all of the help you can get to harvest everything before the weather destroys it. There's no easy answer to this problem as most people generally don't want to work on farms given the work conditions, and most small family farms can't afford to pay for the labor they need (and its gigantic corporate farms where the real abuse happens because there's no incentive to maintain the land or animals) Pretty much the only people willing to work on farms are the people who grew up on farms and people who can't work anywhere else (such as migrant laborers from poorer countries)
Great fucking job, the country which was seen as a symbol of modernization is rolling back to the 1920s.
He was 2 months from being 18...he wasn't 8 years old in a coal mine.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/teen-poultry-factory-child-worker-deaths_n_64b7ecbce4b0ad7b75f67af7
16?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/feds-find-100-children-cleaning-slaughterhouses-pssi-rcna71171
13?
How young do like your slaughterhouse workers?
13 isn't legal, 16 is legal. I'm confused here, are you suggesting that 16 year olds shouldn't be allowed to hold summer jobs?
I'm confused, are you suggesting that it is good when the animal industry kills 16 year old kids for profit and your cheap meat?
Are you suggesting that it's somehow worse when it's a 16 year old and not the fact that someone died?
Are you suggesting they should kill kids younger than 16? I work in hazardous environment and there are many machines and tools where you are required to be of legal age and in many cases have had training with those tools. Using kids to operate deadly machinery, especially if its a holiday job and kill or mutilate them on a regular basis would not fly in my industry. Maybe yours is tougher and I look like a crybaby to you but most of you who don't give a shit don't stay very long.
Yeah, not surprising and not new.
I mean it's nice to see this getting some light and on this but honestly nothing new outside of crappy Republicans looking to get rid of parental consent to have these accidents happen.
I was one of these kids that worked at 14, with my parents signing off on the work permit, to keep food in the table and that check is honestly worthless since once you got the job all enforcement and checks are ignored outside of one rule. I've had a friend get his thumb caught between a roller at the age of 15 that he shouldn't have been allowed to work on, another of that suffered chemical burns. I've had my fair share of working machines that by law I shouldn't have been working at and had a few injuries but thankfully nothing maiming.
There were was never anyone who checked out enforced any of the rules and none of us ever complained because, well there's a reason were working these jobs and not a cushy retail job, and none of these companies ever suffered any meaningful consequences. The laws and enforcement were and remain laughably inadequate except the one rule as I've said, the hours worked. They followed the number of hours we're allowed to work because that's the only thing anyone ever really checked on probably because that would be the only thing that would trigger audits.
Over twenty years later and nothing has really changed and only getting worse thanks to Republicans.
The fine is $1,143 BTW
And no way they throw out an industrial grinder. So even with a good cleaning we've returned to the good old days where human flesh wasn't uncommon in meat production. Welcome to America
Personal responsibility! Ridiculous that this child wasn't more responsible and cost his employer 2 years of wages for a teenager
This child...was 2 months away from being 18. He wasn't 10. Most teenagers start working in highschool around 16, to learn responsibilities and the world.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/teen-poultry-factory-child-worker-deaths_n_64b7ecbce4b0ad7b75f67af7
16?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/feds-find-100-children-cleaning-slaughterhouses-pssi-rcna71171
13?
How young do like your slaughterhouse workers?