[1010RD]

Here's how they build their lies:

-Between 1995 and 2000, there where 695 total farm-related youth fatalities on US farms

[why choose just those years? Isn't there data available for 2001-2010?]

-Of the leading sources of fatal injuries to youth on U.S. farms, 25% percent involved machinery (includes tractors), 17% involved motor vehicles (includes ATVs), and 16% were due to drowning

[Every drowning is an accident, but not every drowning is farm related. Did they drown in the creek, swimming pool or local swimming hole? You'd expect an industry with high mechanization to have higher mechanization fatalities. Were the motor vehicles being used recreationally or during work?]

[It only gets worse as you read on:]

Nonfatal Injuries

 In 2006, an estimated 3,601 household youth were injured while performing farm work. 2

 According to data from 2006, approximately 3,026 injuries (26%) occurred to children under 10 years of age living on farms.3

 Nearly 75% of injured children were not actively working when the injury occurred.3

 Falls (40%) were the most common injuring event among household youth.

[Just do the math yourself and you'll see these guys are either innumerate, liars or both. The numbers just don't add up.]

More here: http://www.marshfieldclinic.org/proxy/MCRF-Centers-NFMC-NCCRAHS-ChildAgInjuryFactSheet_July-2011.2.pdf

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Thanks for looking into that and posting a breakdown of their sloppy and no doubt agenda-driven work output. And to think that folk like you and I paid for that slop with perfectly good tax dollars.

 

 

[Texas Fossil]

Nearly 75% of injured children were not actively working when the injury occurred

In itself that statement defeats their purpose. But I bet even that statement is distorted. "Figures do not lie, bu liars figure."

[Rippin]

And of course there is a never a baseline. What is ‘normal?’

Also, they never feel compelled to really prove that their reg will make anything better. People on farms get hurt as much having fun as they do ‘working’ I’ll wager. I did some pretty stupid things when I wasn’t working on my Grandfather’s gentlemen’s farm.