Why is a 15 year old …
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$117k is all? Good grief, shut that company down. WOW!! And how could any parent think for even one second that this is a job their 15 year old should be doing.
Before the age of 15, I walked beans with a sharp AF blade, de-tasseled corn and roofed houses.
This appears to be an unfortunate accident and I don’t think the penalty is enough.
I’m willing to bet that many roofing contractors use child labor, many of which are undocumented.
This appears to be an unfortunate accident and I don’t think the penalty is enough.
I’m willing to bet that many roofing contractors use child labor, many of which are undocumented.
I don't see this as a terrible job for a 15 year old that wants to work. No big deal
I roofed houses when I was 15. Now that I think about it, I think I started at 14.
This is less about age than it is about fall protection,.. I also did roofing as a teenager.
Why is it unconscionable for a 15 year old to be doing roofing?
I started driving a tractor, discing fields, before I was 10, and picked butterbeans well before that.
I wonder what the hardest job some people have ever done.
It really depends on the nature of the job and if the kid can handle it. Obviously kids can't be placed in danger.
I started driving a tractor, discing fields, before I was 10, and picked butterbeans well before that.
I wonder what the hardest job some people have ever done.
It really depends on the nature of the job and if the kid can handle it. Obviously kids can't be placed in danger.
You all were put on a roof 50 feet high as a 15 year old? I call bull shit.
Several. But not on a roof 50 feet high. I doubt any of you were either.
Moving the goalpost. Now it's about height.
Clear it up for us. Would roofing a single story building be OK for a 15 year old?
I started at 14. Pretty much every farm kid was doing work just as dangerous by 15.
Psht, back on my day if you weren't building explosives for the war effort or working in the asbestos mines by age 8, we'd have called you un-American and beat the tar out of you.
When I was 14, my brother (16 y/o), our best friend (15 y/o), and I re-shingled our house and our buddy's house over the summer. I'm fairly certain our parents' had two motives:
1. Get the roofs re-shingled for cheap, and
2. Get our dumb asses up on the roof in Florida in the middle of summer - where it was approximately 7500 degrees Fahrenheit - to motivate us to work hard in school so we wouldn't ever have to do manual labor like that again.
It worked on all counts.
1. Get the roofs re-shingled for cheap, and
2. Get our dumb asses up on the roof in Florida in the middle of summer - where it was approximately 7500 degrees Fahrenheit - to motivate us to work hard in school so we wouldn't ever have to do manual labor like that again.
It worked on all counts.
Yeah, 50 feet is a whole lot different than one story. You disagree with that?
I would be fine with a 15 year old on a one story.
50 feet? Probably not. 30 feet at least at the peak? You bet. And from that distance it’s probably curtains anyway.
Now you want to talk about the stuff we did on the top of grain bins, we’re talking 50 feet easy.
Lol at folks just telling us how dangerous their jobs were when they were kids
Lol at folks just telling us how dangerous their jobs were when they were kids
Like clockwork. I hope if it ever happens to me I can at least be self-aware.
When I was 15 I had a summer job working for a tree surgery business owned by my friend's dad. I was making $2 an hour and was happy to get it.
One day they sent me up on the roof of the shop to spread tar all over the galvanized metal roof with a mop. Completely ruined my shoes and jeans, so I lost money that day.
CSB
One day they sent me up on the roof of the shop to spread tar all over the galvanized metal roof with a mop. Completely ruined my shoes and jeans, so I lost money that day.
CSB
Same people who are cool with this kind of child labor don’t want kids reading The Illustrated Diary of Anne Frank because she talks about kissing a girl.
Any kid that grew up in a working farm had risk of death several times during the year.
The grain bins are what come to mind here. Climbing up the grain leg on icy mornings.
People are actually comparing detassling corn and picking butter beans to being a 15 year old roofer elevated 50 feet off the ground?
Agreed. ^^ And training, or lack thereof. If this was their first day on the job and they were sent to a project with a 50' roof, I sense they probably did not have sufficient training for such a worksite.
FWIW, as a contractor, I cannot employ anyone under 18 years of age, unless they are sons/daughters, then I think it is 15. But there is no way that I would send anyone on such a job so early in their tenure. Ugh.
That appears to be just the civil penalty for their infraction...I suspect there could be lawsuit on top of it.
People bragging about being exploited in their youths like no biggieLol at folks just telling us how dangerous their jobs were when they were kids
More of a failure of safety protocol. Young laborers should be loading the debris and picking up the nails off the ground, not on the roof. BTW you can die from a 10 foot fall as easily as a 50 foot fall...
When I was a kid in Key West I worked on roofs uphill both ways in the snow.
When I was 16 we convinced our dumb friend to climb to the top of a grain elevator (the tall ass ones) and throw a bowling ball and a pumpkin off of it.
lol I'd like to see facts on this please.
I don't doubt you could die from a 10 foot fall, but you'd have to land on something in a vital area. I'm going to guess the odds of surviving a 10 foot fall are much better than a 50 foot fall.
