The company, Tuff Torq, was fined nearly $300,000 for hiring 10 children. It must also set aside $1.5 million to help the immigrant minors who were illegally employed.

Immigrant children as young as 14 were found working illegally amid dangerous heavy equipment at a Tennessee firm that makes parts for lawn mowers sold by John Deere and other companies, according to Labor Department officials.

The company, Tuff Torq, was fined nearly $300,000 for hiring 10 children. As part of a consent agreement with the federal government, the company is also required to set aside $1.5 million to help the children who were illegally employed. Ryan Pott, general counsel for Tuff Torq’s majority owner, the Japanese firm Yanmar, acknowledged the violations to NBC News.

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    7 months ago

    Listen, we can’t all live in Finland, mate. This is just rubbing it in. And you over there with your tall treetops and loffy mountains.

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      7 months ago

      Actually, there’s not a single mountain in the whole country.

      Norway wanted to give us one but it didn’t work out in the end.

      Also, compared to American Redwoods, our trees really aren’t that tall.

      So it’s more like us over here with our thick, short forests and our potato fields.