Fall and death of a boy in corn machine

As mentioned in a local news paper report, a boy died due to fall in the corn processing machine while adding corn to the machine. The 14 year old boy went to fields with his buffaloes and he was engaged in the machine feeding job. The boy's head and part of the body got crushed in the machine. As per the picture, it appears that there is no proper access and platform for doing the job, and no guard rail/barricade to prevent fall of persons. I am not clear whether Factories Act and Rules can be applied or not, but the spirit of the rules can be followed in all walks of life. As per the rules, children should not be engaged for work on or near moving machinery. Even local government rules prohibit engaging child labour. The news paper report in local language can be read here. 

Open borewells - fall of kids

Now a days, it is a regular phenomenon of reading / viewing the fall of innocent kids in open borewells. We also see, once a kid falls into a borewell, after it is brought into the attention by media, all agencies will come into action. For 8-10 inch borewell, a big well will be dug parallelly and a contact will be made to save the child. Proper closure of borewell, once dug, will cost a few hundred rupees. This responsibility should be squarely put on the person who digs it and after seeing so many incidents of fall of children into open borewells, it becomes necessary to even FENCE the closed borewell in a secured manner. If a borewell after drilling is not fitted with pumping arrangement immediately, then, it should not be taken up for drilling. Work should be completed in all respects and it is like playing with the lives of innocent children, IF the wells are not closed in a proper and secured manner. A lock and key arrangement should be made. If there is possibility of theft of lock, then, hand / motorised pump should be fitted immediately and the borewell should be put into use. Then only, I feel, we can avoid these recurring incidents of fall of children into thse wells.
Any person, who leaves the open borewells after drilling, should be put behind bars without bail. Then only people will realize the dangers posed by these open borewells.