Author: Davis, Shelley
Date Published: 2000
This study reports on the health hazards facing children working in agriculture and the inadequacy of existing laws to protect them. Farm work, for many years, has been one the three most dangerous occupations in the United States. Exposure to pesticides and other toxic chemicals, transportation accidents, tractor rollovers, unguarded farm machines, open irrigation ditches, and animals pose some of the most significant hazards in the agricultural workplace. Although this study touches on all children working on the farm, it places primary emphasis on upon young migrant and seasonal farmworkers.