The fine is $1,143 BTW

  • SheeEttin@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Defense attorney Howard Van Den Heuvel said Wilbur hired the teen, a high school dropout, as a way to help him. He said the boy was warned to never put his hand inside the grinder.

    I’m sympathetic to this, but he shouldn’t have been working around dangerous machinery at all. Give the kid safer jobs, like fetching tools or mopping floors.