Children, tractors, and laws/regulations

[dmccarty]

There was a section on the front page of the Wall Street Journal this morning, 6/26/2001, that was talking about work place safety. Two paragraphs were about children and tractor/farm safety. The first paragraph was about a safety group, I can't remember if it was a private or government organization, pushing for child labor laws to apply to farms due the number of accidents involving children. The second paragraph was about a man who was operating a tracter with a "front end loading device." His boy was riding in the "device", fell out and was killed by the tractor. State authorities were thinking about filing charges.

Food for thought.....
Dan McCarty