Summer work and injury among youth on family farms.

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• Personal Author:
  Anderson HA ; Garman S ; Zierold KM
• Description:
  In the United States, farming ranks among the industries with the highest rates of worker injury and death. Working on family farms children of all ages do many hazardous tasks, including driving tractors, working in grain bins, working with animals, and planting and harvesting crops. Limited information exists on work and injury among children working on family farms. In October 2001, a cross-sectional survey was administered to five school districts and one large urban school in Wisconsin. In total, there were 562 middle school children aged 10-14 years old and 398 high school students aged 15-19 years old reported working on family farms. The tasks most commonly reported among both groups were (1) harvesting and planting crops, (2) working with animals, (3) lawn mowing and (4) painting. When asked about working with hazardous materials, 31% of middle school children responded "Yes" and 41% of high school students responded "Yes." Overall, 24% of middle school students reported being injured at work and 31% of high school students reported being injured at work. Many of these injuries were severe enough to affect the students work, play, or school activities for 3 or more days. Variables that were significantly associated with injury included being male, being non-white, having a near-miss experience, being asked to do something dangerous, working after 7pm at night, and working 10 or more hours per week. As the federal laws are now, restrictions to youth in agricultural employment do not apply to youth who are employed by their parents on a farm owned or operated by their parents. Based on the prevalence of injury and the severity of injury occurring on family farms, review of child labor laws is warranted.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Biological Factors Diagnosis Hazardous Substances Inhalation Exposure Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Agricultural Workers Child Labor Children Families Farm Workers Hazardous Materials Injection Safety Young Workers
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Abstract
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 4 ; South Carolina
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  68
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20057792
• Citation:
  NOIRS 2003: Abstracts of the National Occupational Injury Research Symposium, October 28-30, 2003, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh, PA: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 2003 Oct; :68
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2004
• Performing Organization:
  Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  19940701
• Source Full Name:
  NOIRS 2003: Abstracts of the National Occupational Injury Research Symposium, October 28-30, 2003, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• End Date:
  20040630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:f038a888e0e3c1dbbdc4a79b3e732a1b74d045c00588ff2da228b5d1cde8ff4a3eefcfbb38aef1fdb2dea9c834e1535ba3f466e83b479d6ac327cf323c87a3f9
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/181834/cdc_181834_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 79.53 KB ]