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USA: Reports Shows 88 American youths died from work-related injuries in 2010 – News-Medical.net

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Posted April 10, 2012

In Agriculture, child labor in agriculture, Child Labor News, Children in the Fields, Hazardous Labor, worst forms child labor

Report: 88 American youths died from work-related injuries in 2010
News-Medical.net
“We don’t tend to think of child labor as a major issue in the US but we should,” said the study’s lead author Carol Runyan, Ph.D., MPH, and professor of epidemiology at the Colorado School of Public Health. “Laws governing the employment of youth ages …
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