2010 Fact Sheet: Childhood Agricultural Injuries

Details

• Corporate Authors:
  National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety ; National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety
• Description:
  Farms: In 2009, there were approximately 2.2 million farms in the United States. Children: Over 1.12 million youth lived on farms in 2006.2; More than half of all household youth performed work or chores on the farm in 2006; An additional 307,000 youth (youth not living on farms) were hired to do work on US farms in 2006; Only 30% of farm households with children younger than eight years reported having an enclosed, fenced off play area in 2006. Industry: The National Safety Council's 2008 edition of Injury Facts ranks agriculture as our nation's most dangerous industry with 28.7 deaths per 100,000 adult workers. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Family Farmers Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Agricultural-industry Agricultural-workers Children Families Injury-prevention Occupational-hazards Safety-education
• Publisher:
  Marshfield Clinic
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet ; Fact Sheet
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 5 ; Wisconsin
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health ; Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America ; North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20037593
• Citation:
  Marshfield, WI: Marshfield Clinic, 2010 Jun; :1-2
• Email:
  nccrahs@mcrf.mfldclin.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2010
• NORA Priority Area:
  Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing ; Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
• Performing Organization:
  Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20080930
• Source Full Name:
  2010 fact sheet: childhood agricultural injuries
• End Date:
  20250929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:34f8d901cb174268d93e6e9ce02ef77e84f9f274648caa0d4ca33aef1e14375d6955709fdfb207834425166bb405201c9e7ff713bf38c1a7856158eb4ff446b9
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/188663/cdc_188663_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 66.98 KB ]