Keep those kiddies safe!

Hello Readers,
Boy oh boy it is a beautiful day out there today.

On a couple of previous post I dropped a , more about that later, line. One in particular was about farm safety and children. When I typed this into my search engine it came up with nearly 400,000 hits. There is one site in particular that I would recommend you look at. fs4jk.org
That would be Farm Safety 4 Just Kids. There are plenty out there and I urge you to look them up and see how to keep our kids safe. One article I came across is from Alabama A&M and Auburn Universities www.aces.edu
YOUTH AGRICULTURAL INJURY STATISTICS
The information below was taken from the article.
In the article it states that an estimated 104 children younger than 20 die of agricultural injuries on U.S. Farms and ranches annually. Of male youth, fifty-three percent of the fatalities occur in crop production. Female youth fatalities are primarily in livestock production. Farm machinery (including tractors) is the leading agent of fatality, accounting for thirty-six percent of deaths to youth less than 20 years old. Thirty percent of farm machinery-related deaths are among children less than 5 years old. Drowning is the second leading mechanism of death on farms with children less than 5 years of age, accounting for 32 percent of farm deaths.
There is more to the article but I think you get the picture. On the Farm Safety 4 Just Kids site there is a plethora of information and tools to use to help keep our kids safe. But we have to remember they will only be as safe as we teach them to be. It is not just there jobs to watch out but our only job to keep them safe and out of harms way.
I hope this informs those who read this enough to take that extra step to watch out for our youth. No one wants to see a child hurt or worse.

For now I am taking this day and only this day at this time.