The owner of a meat business in western Michigan has been ordered to pay nearly $1,200 after a 17-year-old worker lost his hand in a grinder.

The owner of a meat business in western Michigan has been ordered to pay nearly $1,200 after a 17-year-old worker lost his hand in a grinder.

  • sigh@lemmy.world
    60·
    2 years ago

    Ionia County Judge Ray Voet said the accident was a “horrible tragedy” but didn’t warrant jail or probation for Darin Wilbur, WOOD-TV reported.

    …

    “Two months later, we wouldn’t even be here,” the judge said, noting that the teen soon would have turned 18 years old.

    “Ionia County is a farming county, and I know a lot of people in this county view children working, sometimes around dangerous machinery, as part of growing up,” Voet said.

    wow fuck that judge

  • Adeptfuckup@lemmy.world
    31·
    2 years ago

    $1200 huh? I’d pay some crackheads to shit on the judge’s lawn over the course of a few days. Bonus pay for leaving a floater in his jacuzzi.