In the US South there's a ton of poultry workers that have lost fingers and parts of hands to machinery. It's gotten a lot better lately, but for a long time it was a very bad problem. Since most of these workers were Black or from Latin America, there was very little was done to protect them.
more like, "Since most of these workers are poor,"
I don't know what the appropriate coin-flipping analogy is, but it's like getting heads a lot of times.
American Descendents of Slavery haven’t gotten their reparations yet, and LatAm is still an American-managed cluster fuck.
When it comes to children there is an additional level of responsebvility that cannot be 'waived' away.
For instance if children tresspass onto your land and hurt themselves, you could be held legally responsible under the doctrine of 'Attractive nuisance'