Musculoskeletal disorders among children and adolescents working in agriculture

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• Personal Author:
  Waters, Thomas R.
• Description:
  Agriculture is one of the few industries in which children and adolescents are considered an integral component of the workforce, yet children and adolescents are often asked to perform physically demanding jobs that are typically designed for adults. These tasks include lifting and moving materials and equipment, operating farm equipment, and performing jobs requiring moderate to high levels of strength and coordination. It has been estimated that more than two million youth less than 20 years of age are potentially exposed to agricultural hazards each year, as farm residents, farm family workers, hired workers, children of migrant or seasonal workers, or farm visitors (NIOSH, 2001). In 1998. it was estimated that 1.9 million youth lived or worked on farms, and thousands more youth were engaged in migrant or seasonal agricultural labor. In 1998, more than 32,800 of these youth suffered a serious unexpected work-related injury or fatality as a result of exposure to farm/agricultural work hazards. It is not known, however. what proportion of the exposed youth experienced an injury or work-related musculoskeletal disorder (WMSD) due to excessive physical demands or repetitive exertions/movements of the work rather than to an unexpected acute event. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Agriculture Farmers Men Morbidity Mortality Musculoskeletal Diseases Musculoskeletal System Occupational Health Preventive Medicine Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Women Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Adolescents Agricultural-industry Agricultural-workers Children Diseases Equipment-operators Etiology Exposure-levels Hazards Humans Injuries Manual-lifting Manual-materials-handling Morbidity-rates Mortality-rates Musculoskeletal-system Musculoskeletal-system-disorders Physical-reactions Physical-stress Physiological-effects Physiology Preventive-medicine Risk-factors Sociological-factors Traumatic-injuries Work-capability Work-environment Workers

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• ISSN:
  1074-7583
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DART - Division of Applied Research and Technology
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  253-255
• Volume:
  8
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20046019
• Citation:
  J Agric Saf Health 2002 Aug; 8(3):253-255
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2002
• NORA Priority Area:
  Work Environment and Workforce: Special Populations
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Agricultural Safety and Health
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/201210/cdc_201210_DS1.pdf
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