The aim of the paper is to answer the question on the level of protection rural children are given by the legal regulation on accident insurance at agricultural work. Considerations carried out in the paper form a critical assessment of current solutions, because the law on social insurance of farmers does not extend the insurance protection to youngest persons working in agriculture, even when applying for it. The Author concludes by stating that due to the family character of agricultural holdings, the specifics of agricultural work and the common practice of children helping at agricultural work there exists a need for an extension of the personal catalogue in agricultural accident insurance. The arguments given in the paper call for such an extension being committed towards children. However, this shall not be done by lowering the age of household member. Children until the age of sixteen should be specifically protected due to the burden of work given to and carried out by them.