And parents have to use an abundance of caution. Pa. Williams, a 30-year farming veteran, is concerned with the recent increase of injuries on Pennsylvania farms. Of the 30 fatalities on Pennsylvania farms in 1999, about one-third involved children younger than 10. Tom Williams raised four sons on the dairy farm where he spent his own childhood. To him, injuries are an unfortunate part of growing up on a farm.
People have to do what's correct by the laws.
And parents have to use an abundance of caution. Fisher's lawyer declined to talk about the case, and Perry County District Attorney R. Scott Cramer didn't return several telephone calls. While Williams and other central Pennsylvania farmers question the criminal charges, they are stunned by John Wesley Fisher's death and those of two other toddlers in recent farm accidents. The boy's father and another brother had been walking alongside, clearing stones from a field. It's a tough way to learn.