Little Girl's Hand Cut Off

[alohabear]

I saw this report (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,195491,00.html) this morning on Fox news. I sure hope she's ok. :(
This is what the Star Bull said:An industrial accident severed the hand of an 18-month-old girl while her family was on a tour of the Menehune Mac Chocolate Center & Gift Factory in Kalihi yesterday.

The accident happened on the last day of the company's Fifth Annual Mother's Day Candy Making Event, a fundraiser for the Hawaii Children's Cancer Foundation.
Why the hell would anyone allow a toddler around factory equipment?

[Glen Miyashiro]

When I read the article in the S-B, two things jumped out at me.

1. The tour was supposed to be for ages 7 and up. What was a toddler doing there, then?

2. The girl's mother was on the tour but was off with her other (I presume older) kids, while the little girl was with another adult. How come the mom wasn't sticking with her youngest child?

[craigwatanabe]

When I was a younger elementary school student back in the early 60's, this one little girl got her very long hair caught in some machinery at the Love's Bakery plant in Kapahulu (long gone now) and had her entire scalp ripped off her head.

That incident and the one with the girl's hand just tells you that industrial places are no place for children.

Even for adults it's a dangerous place, like the story about the guy who didn't report for work at the paper mill the next day. They looked for him until one worker made a grisley discovery in their wood chipping machine. Needless to say the paper came out a slightly pinkish hue that day. :eek: