Risks of Fatal Injuries to Farm Workers 55-Years of Age and Older

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• Personal Author:
  Casini, Virgil J. ; Cianfrocco R ; Fields J ; Hard, David L. ; Morton L ; Myers, John R. ; Snyder KA
• Description:
  The results of this analysis confirm previous studies that have shown older workers to be at the highest risk for occupational injuries within the agricultural production industry (Purschwitz and Field, 1986: Murphy, 1990; Myers and Hard, 1995). The identification of farm tractors as the leading cause of these fatalities has also been previously reported. This risk of fatal occupational injury is give added importance by the magnitude of older worker deaths, which ranged between 47% and 51% of all agricultural production deaths in the two surveillance systems. Public health efforts are needed to reduce the risk of tractor related, truck-related, and machinery-related deaths to the older farm workers, both in terms of educational programs and through the development, or use of known engineering interventions. Educational programs must be tailored to these older workers, while engineering interventions will require engineers to work with these older farm workers in the design and implementation of engineering controls to ensure their acceptance by these workers. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Age Factors Aging Agriculture Demography Mortality Occupational Health Occupational Injuries Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Age-factors Age-groups Agricultural-industry Agricultural Production Author Keywords: Work-related Deaths Demographic-characteristics Injuries Mortality-data Mortality-rates Occupational-accidents Occupational-health Occupational Health And Safety Older Workers Risk-analysis Risk-factors Statistical-analysis Surveillance-programs Traumatic-injuries Work-environment Work Environment Worker-health Workers

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• ISSN:
  0271-3586
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• 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:
  29-30
• Volume:
  36
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20000817
• Citation:
  Am J Ind Med 1999 Sep; 36(S1):29-30
• Contact Point Address:
  John R. Myers, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Division of Safety Rearch, Mail Stop 180-P, 1095 Willowdale Road, Morgantown, West Virginia 26505
• Email:
  jom5@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1999
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  American Journal of Industrial Medicine
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:3337da62e6cee476f6b3eb705e1f58106ca5b56d88cd306c2d74693f65627bb0c4f012a7ad5cb5423140b072aea8011acf00b1a4a693b3c1c088455ffdc22f7e
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/198200/cdc_198200_DS1.pdf
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