{"id":548,"date":"2013-06-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seidmanlaw-net.lawblogger.net\/blog\/young-workers-faced-elevated-risk-levels\/"},"modified":"2022-07-01T12:00:14","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T17:00:14","slug":"young-workers-faced-elevated-risk-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seidmanlaw.net\/blog\/young-workers-faced-elevated-risk-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Workers Faced Elevated Risk Levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"item-meta h3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seidmanlaw.net\/blog\/category\/work-accidents\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Work Accidents<\/a> | June 28, 2013<\/p>\n<p>Every summer, many young workers enter the workforce for the first time in their lives. While a person&#8217;s first job can be exciting, or at least eye-opening, it can also be a source of danger. Young workers suffer from highly elevated rates of <a href=\"\/Workers-Compensation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">workplace accidents<\/a>. The workplace injury rate for workers under 25 years of age is double that of older workers. They are the most likely to be injured and the most likely to die in fatal on-the-job accidents. Knowledge that many older workers may take for granted needs to be imparted to new workers to help them stay safe. The numbers make it clear that we are not doing enough to protect new workers when are first learning what it means to be employed.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Department of Labor, another teen worker is injured every 9 minutes. The severity of these injuries varies greatly, but each represents a failure on the part of both the worker and the employer in taking proper precautions. In 2011, there were more than 100,000 such failures, including 331 incidents in which a young worker suffered a fatal injury.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seidmanlaw.net\/blog\/young-workers-faced-elevated-risk-levels\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Young Workers Faced Elevated Risk Levels\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work Accidents | June 28, 2013 Every summer, many young workers enter the workforce for the first time in their lives. While a person&#8217;s first job can be exciting, or at least eye-opening, it can also be a source of danger. Young workers suffer from highly elevated rates of workplace accidents. 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