Worker fatauties identified by irrigation key-word searches of the database.

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• Personal Author:
  Cianfrocco R ; Cutlip P ; Hard, David L. ; Jenkins L ; Kisner S ; Stout N
• Description:
  This analysis describes fatal occupational injuries involving irrigation operations or mechanisms in the United States. Cases were identified by examining data from the National Traumatic Occupational Fatality (NTOF) database, which is maintained by the Division of Safety Research (DSR), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). NTOF includes data from death certificates, obtained from all 50 States, New York City and the District of Columbia, that indicated the decedent was 16 years or older, died from an external (injury) cause and was injured at work. A key-word search of injury descriptions and cause of death narratives from NTOF identified cases descnbed as involving "irrigation." This analysis includes cases from 1980 to 1989, although data for 1987-89 are incomplete. From 1980 through 1989, 60 workers died in the U.S. fRom, William N.ork-related injuries involving irrigation. Twenty-two percent of these deaths occurred in California and 12 percent were in Texas. Most fatalities were among men (97 percent). More deaths occurred to Whites (65 percent) than to Hispanics (30 percent), Blacks (3 percent), or other races (2 percent), although Hispanics may be overrepresented relative to their proportion of the labor force. Workers between the ages of 20 and 34 accounted for 43 percent of the deaths. Farmers (32 percent) and farmworkers (37 percent) were the most frequent occupations of the victims. Seventy percent of the fatalities were in the Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Industry. From 1980 through 1986, the leading causes of death involving irrigation operations or mechanisms were electrocution (67 percent), drowning/ suffocation (11 percent), and machines (9 percent). The ability to identify specific occupational fatalities are possible through computer keyword searches of injury descriptions and cause-of-death narratives from the NTOF data base.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Air Pollutants, Occupational Energy Metabolism Environmental Exposure Environmental Pollution Hazardous Substances Livestock Metals Occupational Health Poisoning Safety Vanadium

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• Keywords:
  Adolescents Agricultural-industry Agricultural-workers Drowning Electrocutions Exposure Levels Farmers Farm Workers Fatalities Fishing Industry Forestry Forestry Workers Hazards Humans Industrial Environment Injuries Machine Shop Workers Machine Tools Men Racial Factors Risk Factors Statistical Analysis Suffocation Traumatic Injuries Women Work Environment Worker-health Workers

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• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Abstract
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  566
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20056021
• Citation:
  Papers and Proceedings of the Surgeon General's Conference on Agricultural Safety and Health (FarmSafe 2000). Myers ML, Herrick RF, Olenchock SA, Myers JR, Parker, John E., Hard DL, Wilson K, eds. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 92-105, 1992 Sep; :566
• Editor(s):
  Myers ML ; Herrick RF ; Olenchock SA ; Myers JR ; Parker, John E. ; Hard DL ; Wilson K
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1992
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Papers and Proceedings of the Surgeon General's Conference on Agricultural Safety and Health (FarmSafe 2000), April 30-May 3, 1991, Des Moines, Iowa
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/181768/cdc_181768_DS1.pdf
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