Southeast Center for Agricultural Health and Injury Prevention

Details

• Personal Author:
  Sanderson, Wayne T.
• Description:
  The Southeast Center for Agricultural Health and Injury Prevention (SCAHIP), founded in 1992, works to improve the safety and health of agricultural, forestry and fishing (AFF) workers and their families in 10 states in the US Southeast: Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, West Virginia, and Virginia. Agriculture consistently ranks among the most dangerous occupations in the US and farming is one of the few industries in which family members who often share the work and live on the premises are also at risk for fatal and non-fatal injuries. Every year hundreds of farmers and farm workers die from on-the-job injuries. Nationally, data from 2014 identifies that AFF recorded the highest fatal injury rate of any industry sector at 24.9 fatal injuries per 100,000 full time equivalent (FTE) workers, up 9% from 2013. This toll is over 8 times higher than the all-industries rate of 3.3 per 100,000 FTE workers. The increase in AFF fatalities was led by fatalities involving agriculture workers (up 12%) and fatalities involving logging workers (up 31%). The AFF sector also continues to record much higher rates of non-fatal occupational injuries than the all-industry average: 112 cases per 10,000 FTE US workers in 2012 (all industries average), compared to 192 per 10,000 FTE workers in AFF. Over the past two decades, tractor roll-overs have been the leading cause of farmworker deaths. On average, 113 youth less than 20 years of age die annually from farm-related injuries. Most of these deaths occurred to youth 16-19 years of age with the majority involving tractors and all-terrain vehicles. There are also economic and social losses associated with these injuries. Every day about 167 agricultural workers suffer from lost work time due to injuries with many of these injuries becoming permanent. These incidents cost time and money to any organization, but the collateral damage could impact hundreds of families. SCAHIP is located at the University of Kentucky (UK), a land-grant campus that houses the Colleges of Agriculture, Medicine, Nursing, Public Health and Arts and Sciences among others all on one campus. This unique situation allows for multidisciplinary collaboration from agriculture, public health, epidemiology, biology, engineering, education, forestry, communications, nursing, medicine, and Cooperative Extension within UK as well as across universities in the Southeast. The Center's theme, "Multidisciplinary partnerships to improve agricultural safety and health in the Southeast," targets vulnerable farm, forestry and fishing populations while addressing persistent and emerging agricultural/forestry and fishing safety concerns unique to the 10 southeastern states in its region. Since 1992, the Center has had substantial impact on the prevention of injuries from tractor overturns, reduction of logging injuries and fatalities, surveillance and risk evaluation of emerging issues, the development of widespread multidisciplinary training to increase the number of professionals skilled in addressing health and safety issues faced by agricultural workers and their families and the extension of its outreach programs to address the health and safety needs of the agricultural, forestry and fishing industry. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Age Factors Agriculture Farmers Forestry Mortality Occupational Health Risk Assessment Safety
• Keywords:
  Age Factors Agricultural Centers Agricultural Machinery Agriculture, Forestry And Fishing Farm Workers Fatalities Injuries Injury Prevention Logging Industry Occupational Safety Programs Risk Management Surveillance Programs Young Workers

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• Series:
  Grant Final Reports
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Final Cooperative Agreement Report
• Place as Subject:
  Kentucky ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OEP - Office of Extramural Programs
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-73
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20052956
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2019-100183
• Citation:
  Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, U54-OH-007547, 2017 Sep; :1-73
• Contact Point Address:
  Wayne T. Sanderson, PhD, Director, Southeast Center for Agricultural Health and Injury Prevention, Professor, University of Kentucky, College of Public Health, 111 Washington Avenue, Lexington, KY 40536-0003
• Email:
  wsa223@uky.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2017
• NORA Priority Area:
  Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
• Performing Organization:
  University of Kentucky
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20010930
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• End Date:
  20270929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:2a7dcf8359c01c16ca41ffeb98a774449c021d85adc0256f912e1140822b9be1bb900d8c215babd5709cd039eb8e37e27a2b747b427a8a1f26fea1ff3105184f
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/218737/cdc_218737_DS1.pdf
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