Financial aspects of farm injuries and occupational diseases in Finland.

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• Personal Author:
  Eskola E ; Rautiainen R ; Saarimaki P
• Description:
  Finnish farmers are covered by mandatory employment accident insurance and population based data on injuries, occupational diseases, and their costs exist from 1982. The total number of insured farmers on 1/1/1996 was 141,886. The total cost of the insurance was $ 25 million USD. The cost consists of medical expenses (15 %), lost earnings compensation (36 %), accident pensions (32 %), survivors pensions (3 %), inconvenience allowance (7 %), and rehabilitation and other benefits (7 %). Farmers pay approximately one third of the cost as premiums. One third is paid by the national health insurance and one third by the state. The premium rate is 0.84 % of the calculated farm income. In 1996, 10,078 injuries and 942 occupational diseases were compensated. The average cost per case was $1,370 for injuries and $4,238 for occupational diseases. The most costly types of injuries were upper limb injuries ($1,700). The most costly types of occupational diseases were asthma caused by organic dust ($14,173) and hypersensitivity pneumonitis ($12,830). Based on multivariate analysis, the best predictors for injury cost were length of disability, farm income, employment income, business income, injury type and cause, which explained 81 % of the variability in injury cost.
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Agricultural-industry Agricultural-workers Agriculture Bronchial-asthma Disabled-workers Farmers Hypersensitivity Injuries Occupational-diseases Organic-dusts
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Abstract ; Conference/Symposia Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  Colorado ; Iowa ; OSHA Region 7 ; OSHA Region 8
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20026742
• Citation:
  NIOSH Agricultural Health and Safety Conference, April 28-30, 2000, Cooperstown, New York. Washington, DC: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 2000 Apr; :1
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2000
• Performing Organization:
  Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20000801
• End Date:
  20020731
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:2afdd51a4e35bc50cb9c447901c5d88b69d9523f53b1d4e5402088653248fe341a6750d80e6241651bb677ccb35e6ca86fde56145a84c227b2d2709ffa29633e
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/181280/cdc_181280_DS1.pdf
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