Claim: A proposed U.S. Labor Department rule for children working on farms "would even ban youth from operating a battery-powered screwdriver or a pressurized garden hose."
Fact-check: Tom Rooney says feds want to ban kid farmers from using battery-powered screwdrivers and garden hoses
Verdict: barely-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Amy Sherman
Date published: 2012-04-26T00:00:00