At age 18, Ohioans are legally permitted to enter the logging industry. The aspiring logger should be aware that it’s America’s most dangerous occupation: great heights, massive trees and poor weather leads to about 85 dead loggers per year. That’s 92 dead for every 100,000 workers– a truly dangerous profession, even with modern safeguards and regulations.
Surely you’ve seen “Deadliest Catch” on the Discovery Channel? It’s every bit as rough as it looks: fishermen die at a rate of 86 per 100,000. It’s a hazardous career choice, but a viable and legal option for a rugged young Ohioan with a yen for the open seas.
Checked out the Iraq war stats lately? Roughly 4,000 coalition troops dead out of approximately 300,000, over four years– that’s well over three times as dangerous as logging! Yet, every 18 year-old in this state (indeed, in this country) is deemed capable of the decision to enlist.
So: the state of Ohio will permit a recent high school graduate to assume risk of death by falling, crushing, drowning, hypothermia, roadside bomb, and/or being shot in the face with an assault rifle from point blank range… but a grown adult, properly forewarned, is unprepared to assess the risk of a smokey work or leisure environment?
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Adults and the Assumption of Risk: The Inarguable Flaw in Ohio’s SmokeFree Workplace Act
At age 18, Ohioans are legally permitted to enter the logging industry. The aspiring logger should be aware that it’s America’s most dangerous occupation: great heights, massive trees and poor weather leads to about 85 dead loggers per year. That’s 92 dead for every 100,000 workers– a truly dangerous profession, even with modern safeguards and regulations.
Surely you’ve seen “Deadliest Catch” on the Discovery Channel? It’s every bit as rough as it looks: fishermen die at a rate of 86 per 100,000. It’s a hazardous career choice, but a viable and legal option for a rugged young Ohioan with a yen for the open seas.
Checked out the Iraq war stats lately? Roughly 4,000 coalition troops dead out of approximately 300,000, over four years– that’s well over three times as dangerous as logging! Yet, every 18 year-old in this state (indeed, in this country) is deemed capable of the decision to enlist.
So: the state of Ohio will permit a recent high school graduate to assume risk of death by falling, crushing, drowning, hypothermia, roadside bomb, and/or being shot in the face with an assault rifle from point blank range… but a grown adult, properly forewarned, is unprepared to assess the risk of a smokey work or leisure environment?
Um… what?
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on October 12, 2007 at 12:26 am Leave a CommentTags: adult, freedom, law, nanny state, rights, smoking
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