The fine is $1,143 BTW

  • AutoTL;DRB
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    61 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    IONIA, Mich. (AP) — The owner of a meat business in western Michigan was ordered to pay $1,143 Tuesday after a 17-year-old worker lost his hand in a grinder.

    Ionia County Judge Ray Voet said the accident was a “horrible tragedy” but didn’t warrant jail or probation for Darin Wilbur, WOOD-TV reported.

    The teenager lost his hand in 2019 while working at US Guys Processing in Saranac, 25 miles (40 kilometers) east of Grand Rapids.

    “Two months later, we wouldn’t even be here,” the judge said, noting that the teen soon would have turned 18 years old.

    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.


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    • @SheeEttin@lemmy.world
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      141 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.