Young Worker Deaths & Injuries

Safety Tips for Working Teens and Parents of Working Teens

The National Consumers League issues the 2010 Five Worst Teen jobs to remind teens and their

Tue Oct 19 2010

10 questions for parents to ask their child or their child’s new employer

A parent concerned about their teen’s safety at work should ask these questions: 1)

Mon Oct 18 2010

NCL Report: The Dangers of Youth Work in Agriculture

[from NCL’s 2010 Five Worst Jobs for Teens] Farms look safe but they are actually very

Mon Oct 18 2010

NCL Report on Dangerous Jobs for Teens: Driver/Operator, Forklifts, Tractors, and All-Terrain Vehicles (ATVs)

[from NCL’s 2010 Five Worst Jobs for Teens] Forklifts, tractors, and all-terrain vehicles

Sun Oct 17 2010

2 Teen Workers Trapped Inside Grain Bin Die in Illinois

MOUNT CARROLL, Ill., July 29, 2010 [This brings to 4 the number of young workers who died in grain

Thu Jul 29 2010

Dangers of Working Alone–Sexual Assualt (article)

Wed Jul 28 2010

Families remember two teens who died in silo accident

[The Department of Labor is currently reviewing the agricultural hazardous orders. In 2002, NIOSH

Tue Jul 13 2010

Teen Dumping Trash Dies In Cesspool–Doughnut Shop Employee Fell In Uncovered Hole

[This tragedy is eerily reminiscent of a teen worker drowning in a septic tank in my home town,

Mon Mar 1 2010

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