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California Labor Code

§ 6359

LAB § 6359 Effective Jan 1, 2001Div. 5 · Part 1 · Ch. 2
(a)The Legislature finds and declares the following:
(1)Every year 70 adolescents die from work injuries in the United States and 200,000 are injured, 70,000 seriously enough to require hospital treatment. Most of these injuries are preventable.
(2)A recent report by the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council has brought national attention to the need for better education and interventions to aid injury and illness prevention efforts aimed at young workers.

Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2000, Ch. 598, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2001.

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