Incidence and cost of injury among youth in agricultural settings, United States, 2001-2006

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• Personal Author:
  Lawrence B ; Miller TR ; Zaloshnja E
• Description:
  OBJECTIVE: Estimate the annual US incidence and cost of fatal and nonfatal youth injury in agricultural settings. METHODS: We used 2001-2006 Childhood Agricultural Injury Survey data to estimate the incidence of nonfatal injury and 2001-2006 Multiple Cause of Death data to estimate the incidence of fatal injury. To estimate the costs for injuries suffered by youth working/living in agricultural settings, we multiplied the number of injuries times published unit costs by body part, nature of injury, and age group. RESULTS: An average of 26,655 agricultural injury incidents occurred annually to youth (ages 0-19) in the United States during the period 2001-2006 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 24,263-29,046). These injuries cost society an estimated $1.423 billion per year in 2005 dollars (95% CI: $1.333 billion-$1.513 billion). Fatalities alone cost an estimated $420 million per year. Work-related injuries annually cost $347 million or 24.4% of the total cost (95% CI: 20.3%-28.5%). Most agricultural youth injuries were not work-related. CONCLUSIONS: We found that, similarly to adult agricultural injuries, youth agricultural injuries tend to be more severe and more costly than nonagricultural injuries. Only 1.4% of injured youth in the United States were hospitalized in 2000, but 14% of youth injured in agriculture were hospitalized in 2001-2006. To address this serious problem, prevention should focus on better controlling both child access to agricultural recreational activities and child assignment to agricultural work-tasks that exceed developmental norms. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Age Factors Aging Agriculture Family Farmers Mortality Occupational Health Safety Surveys And Questionnaires
• Keywords:
  Age-factors Age-groups Agricultural-industry Agricultural-workers Author Keywords: Agricultural Youth Children Families Health-care Health-surveys Information-retrieval-systems Injuries Injury-prevention Medical-treatment Mortality-data Occupational QALY Sociological-factors Statistical-analysis Surveillance-programs Traumatic-injuries

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• ISSN:
  0031-4005
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5 ; Wisconsin
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  129
• Issue:
  4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20040469
• Citation:
  Pediatrics 2012 Apr; 129(4):728-734
• Contact Point Address:
  Eduard Zaloshnja, PhD, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, 11720 Beltsville Dr, Suite 900, Calverton, MD 20705-3111
• Email:
  zaloshnja@pire.org
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2012
• NORA Priority Area:
  Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
• Performing Organization:
  Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20080930
• Source Full Name:
  Pediatrics
• End Date:
  20250929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:3af995fad25e6d4ead49662e470103af023a2d605c28104eadd5bc7341c6503f432a40a5b18109f20c1f69e6f08a6a22ab7637d1a5503aea2bac8b21a35f46c8
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/193311/cdc_193311_DS1.pdf
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