Summer is coming; are you watching out for working teens?
In one study, NIOSH found an estimated 64,100 adolescents (aged 14-17) were treated in emergency departments for workplace injuries in 1992. And this figure probably low-balls the number of incidents, since only 36 percent of work-related injuries are treated in emergency departments, according to NIOSH.
In a separate study of workplace deaths, NIOSH reported 670 16-and 17-year-olds died at work in the 10-year period 1980-1989. Of those fatalities, 44 percent occurred during the summer months (June through August).