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SalamanderSleeps

(1,042 posts) Wed Jul 19, 2023, 07:33 AM Jul 2023

Try to remember what you were like when you were 16 [View all]

16-year-old dies in accident at Mississippi poultry plant

"Complex manager Joe Colee spoke for the entire organization. “Our employees are our most valuable asset and safety is our number one priority,” Colee said in a statement. “We strive daily to work as safely as possible and are truly devastated whenever an employee is injured."

https://www.whio.com/news/trending/16-year-old-dies-accident-mississippi-poultry-plant/ZIAM6WKTTBB75MLN3TVCUICZ54/

When I was 16 I could barely dress myself much less operate a piece of machinery that could kill people.

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Try to remember what you were like when you were 16 [View all] SalamanderSleeps Jul 2023 OP

2 jobs... MiHale Jul 2023 #1

When did you start driving? Effete Snob Jul 2023 #2

Two jobs, stoop labor (dangerous enough because of machinery and chemicals), flipping burgers. marble falls Jul 2023 #3

At 16 I was a roofer Ponietz Jul 2023 #4

I worked in a parking garage Shrek Jul 2023 #5

I had a friend UpInArms Jul 2023 #6

Stockroom at T.G.&Y. Never once feared for my life. czarjak Jul 2023 #7

I worked at the Olympics in 1996 ecstatic Jul 2023 #8

13 --- I was a trap boy at the Union County (N.J.) trap and skeet range. 3Hotdogs Jul 2023 #9

sales clerk at a stationery store Wicked Blue Jul 2023 #10

I didn't work at a business, I did house and yard and garden work. lark Jul 2023 #11

At sixteen, I was operating farm machinery on my parents' farm. Ptah Jul 2023 #12

While there are plenty of 16 year olds capable of intheflow Jul 2023 #13

Thanks. SalamanderSleeps Jul 2023 #15

Worked long before 16, so that age is not really an issue to me. BUT, unsafe working conditions is Silent Type Jul 2023 #14

Late 80's JustAnotherGen Jul 2023 #16

16 year olds are perfectly capable... Chakaconcarne Jul 2023 #17

At 16 I had already been working sarisataka Jul 2023 #18

"Our employees are our most valuable asset" Initech Jul 2023 #19

I think I've found my new role model. :) SalamanderSleeps Jul 2023 #20