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During this season of high work activity for teens, some sobering statistics to consider:

Every year, approximately 200,000 teenagers in the United States are injured on the job, and about 70 teens are killed at work. Every six minutes, a teenager is injured seriously enough on the job to require treatment in a hospital emergency room.

Are these numbers acceptable to anyone? Solutions, anyone?

Wise words from one of our favourite safety bloggers: Kevin Jones, of the SafetyatWork blog out of Australia, just wrote about "Safety, Whistleblowers and Media Disinterest." He blogged that he's discouraged by the lack of mainstream media coverage on government support of workplace safety, but understands the reason: