Rural kids, parents angry about Labor Dept. rule banning farm chores

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“They have said the number of injuries are higher for children than in non-ag industries,” she said. But everyone in agriculture, Boswell insisted, “makes sure youth work in tasks that are age-appropriate.”
The safety training requirements strike many in agriculture as particularly strange, given an injury rate among young people that is already falling rapidly.
According to a United States Department of Agriculture study, farm accidents among youth fell nearly 40 percent between 2001 and 2009, to 7.2 injuries per 1,000 farms.

The highest on the job injury rate happens to people termed "Latino", most likely due to illegal aliens who falsely claim to know how to do the work they are paid very cheaply to do, and through ignorance or by direction from a stupid supervisor wind up as a statistic.