The fine is $1,143 BTW
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 $1,143 Tuesday after a 17-year-old worker lost his hand in a grinder.
Ionia County Judge Ray Voet said the accident was a “horrible tragedy” but didn’t warrant jail or probation for Darin Wilbur, WOOD-TV reported.
The teenager lost his hand in 2019 while working at US Guys Processing in Saranac, 25 miles (40 kilometers) east of Grand Rapids.
“Two months later, we wouldn’t even be here,” the judge said, noting that the teen soon would have turned 18 years old.
Defense attorney Howard Van Den Heuvel said Wilbur hired the teen, a high school dropout, as a way to help him.
He said the boy was warned to never put his hand inside the grinder.
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Defense attorney Howard Van Den Heuvel said Wilbur hired the teen, a high school dropout, as a way to help him. He said the boy was warned to never put his hand inside the grinder.
I’m sympathetic to this, but he shouldn’t have been working around dangerous machinery at all. Give the kid safer jobs, like fetching tools or mopping floors.
Until they start jailing the people hiring and maiming children, this will continue to be seen as little more than the cost of doing business.
So a hand is worth a little more than a thousand dollars… What’s a whole body worth?
It is an average of the highest 39 paid weeks during the last 52 weeks of employment. The minimum death benefit is equal to 50% of the state average weekly wage in the year of injury. Payments continue for a maximum of 500 weeks, and it is tax free money.
So roughly 5 years salary, at least in Michigan.
https://www.workerscomplawyerhelp.com/blog/2021/12/workplace-death/
If you go by weight:
A hand is about 0.46kg
An average adult body is about 81kg
81÷0.46×1143
=> about 200.000$
Second question: I’m trying to sell my body at a steep discount, but still nobody’s interested?
Maybe portion it out instead of selling the whole thing at once? You’ll find someone looking for a kneecap or a left ear more often than you’ll find someone wanting the entire body
Personal responsibility! Ridiculous that this child wasn’t more responsible and cost his employer 2 years of wages for a teenager
Great fucking job, the country which was seen as a symbol of modernization is rolling back to the 1920s.
