Iowa Workers Almanac: Child Worker Sues After Terrible Accident

[Omaha Steve]

https://link.iowastartingline.com/view/650843af904f88308d52ecb5k1rjx.1qu/6d0af03a

The newsletter for the Iowa worker.

It's Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023.

Hey folks, it's Amie.

Iowa Republicans assured us, when they passed a law opening up more kinds of dangerous work for Iowa children, that it was Actually A Good Thing. Kids would learn more trades! Iowa would get more workers! There wouldn't be a downside!

The 17-year-old who lost two fingers in a log splitter might have something to say about that.

Clayton Killian was 17 in July of 2021 when he was working with a log splitter at Central Iowa Firewood in Tama, and severed two of his fingers.

In a lawsuit against the company, Killian says he did not have training on the log splitter, nor was he authorized to even work at a logging operation. In addition, Killian says the owner of the company didn't call an ambulance and personally drove Killian to a Des Moines hospital 70 miles away, where he was then life-flighted to a different hospital, 70 miles in the other direction. This delay, the suit argues, meant it became too late to reattach Killian's fingers.

FULL story at link above.

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