Casual Factors in Production Agriculture Injuries: Working Children and Youth Versus Adults

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• Personal Author:
  Chapman LJ ; Josefsson KG ; Meyer RH ; Newenhouse AC ; Taveira AD
• Description:
  The high incidence rates of agriculture-related fatal and nonfatal injuries are a continuing concern. Some surveillance information is available about injury types and circumstances. However, a gap remains about whether injuries to working children and youth (i.e. aged 6-17) differ from those experienced by adults and whether they require a unique prevention stratagy. We reviewed existing literature and selected high quality studies of traditional agriculture areas with both age and injury casual factor breakdown. We reclassified injury casual factors into types according to a simplified scheme and included our own data from Wisconsin's fatal and nonfatal surveillance systems. We located very few published studies of traditional agriculture areas with good case ascertainment, large sample sizes, and breakdown of injury casual factors by age ranges. When fatal and nonfatal injury data from Ontario, Canada and Wisconsin, USA were reclassified according to our simplified scheme for casual factors, there were few important differences between adults and working children and adolescents in rankings or proportionate weights. Other data suggested that children and youth in traditional agriculture perform, by and large, the same types of work as adults and are exposed to the same hazards. Better surveillance information is needed to guide prevention practices and intervention research, especially data about ages, casual factors, and other aspects of injury circumstances. This limited review suggests that the same injury reduction stratagies can benefit adults and working children and adolescents. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Age Factors Agriculture Farmers Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Adolescent-workers Age-factors Agricultural-workers Children Injuries
• ISBN:
  9789051993936
• Publisher:
  IOS Press
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 5 ; Wisconsin
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  73-76
• Volume:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20000082
• Citation:
  Advances in Occupational Ergonomics and Safety: Proceedings of the XIIIth Annual International Occupational Ergonomics and Safety Conference 1998. Kumar S, ed., Amsterdam, Netherlands: IOS Press, 1998 Jan; 2:73-76
• Contact Point Address:
  Biological Systems Engineering Department, University of Wisconsin, 460 Henry Mall, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
• Editor(s):
  Kumar S
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1998
• NORA Priority Area:
  Disease and Injury: Musculoskeletal Disorders of the Upper Extremities
• Performing Organization:
  University of Wisconsin, Department of Biological Systems Engineering
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  19970930
• Source Full Name:
  Advances in Occupational Ergonomics and Safety, Proceedings of the XIIIth Annual International Occupational Ergonomics and Safety Conference 1998
• End Date:
  20000929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/198144/cdc_198144_DS1.pdf
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