Occupational disease rates in agriculture in Finland.

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• Personal Author:
  Eskola E ; Rautiainen RH ; Saarimaki P ; Siitonen T ; Sprince N
• Description:
  Occupational diseases are compensated to Finnish farmers as part of the mandatory accident insurance system. There were 141,886 insured farmers in 1996; 84,925 of them were male and 56,961 female. 944 occupational diseases were compensated, 510 to males and 434 to females. The incidence rate (occupational diseases/1,000 workers) was 5.9 for males, 7.6 for females and 6.6 overall. The incidence rate was highest in the <20 year age group: 25 for males and 45 for females. The incidence rate declined in the older age groups. The most frequent occupational disease were allergic asthma (159), allergic rhinitis (151), tenosynovitis (146), epicondylitis (126), irritant contact dermatitis (71), hypersensitivity pneumonitis (62), and allergic contact dermatitis (59). The production specific incident rates were 18.1 occupational diseases/1,000 farms in dairy work, 5.4 in swine work, and 2.7 in poultry work. The average length of disability was 26 days during 1996. Many occupational diseases cause lengthy disability periods and the average disability time increased to 64 days when extended disabilities were included up to July 1999. The total amount of compensation payments for new occupational disease cases in 1996 was $3.54 USD.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Forestry Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Safety Safety Management
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-rates Accident-statistics Age-factors Age-groups Agricultural-industry Agricultural-workers Agriculture Allergic-dermatitis Bronchial-asthma Contact-dermatitis Demographic-characteristics Disabled-workers Farmers Hypersensitivity Occupational-diseases Sex-factors

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• 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:20026758
• 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:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/181282/cdc_181282_DS1.pdf
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