Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries in the Southeast: Immigrant Worker Health

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• Personal Author:
  Agnew MJ ; Arcury TA ; Grzywacz JG ; Howard TD ; Klein BG ; Nussbaum MA ; Quandt SA
• Description:
  Agricultural production in the southeastern United States often requires the hand labor of agricultural workers, and much of this agricultural labor is provided by immigrant, migrant, and seasonal workers, who are largely Latinos/Hispanics from Mexico and other Central American nations, as well as Afro-Caribbeans. A growing number of hired immigrant workers are involved in the production of poultry, hogs and fish in the Southeast due to the increasing demand for labor by confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs). In the Southeast, like agriculture, immigrants are providing the labor needed by the forestry and fishing industries. The forestry and fishing industries share many of the organizational and environmental characteristics of agricultural production. Similarities of the agriculture, forestry and fishing industries include exposure to hazards in the natural environment, use of hazardous machinery, and unconventional work arrangements. Another characteristic common to the agriculture, forestry, and fishing industries is the high rate of occupational injuries. However, although the number of immigrant workers in these industries continues to grow, efforts to delineate the occupational injuries which these workers experience and to reduce these occupational injuries have not kept pace. A group of investigators from the Center for Worker Health, Wake Forest School of Medicine (WFSM) and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VT) organized a conference to address the occupational health and safety of immigrant workers in the Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing Sector. The long term goal of this conference was to improve safety in agriculture, forestry, and fishing, and reduce the occupational injuries and illnesses experienced by workers in these industries by facilitating new research, education, and engineering. This two day conference achieved three specific aims: 1. Consolidate and disseminate current knowledge on immigrant agriculture, forestry, and fishing workers' health and safety by commissioning experts to write reviews of the health and safety problems facing these workers. 2. Delineate the most pertinent directions and areas for health and safety research for immigrant agricultural, forestry, and fishing workers through the presentation and detailed discussion of the commissioned reports. 3. Facilitate the development of working groups to support the implementation of research, education, and engineering projects that can address the major directions and areas identified during the conference. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Emigration And Immigration Forestry Hunting Livestock Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Agricultural Machinery Agricultural Workers Fishing Industry Forestry Workers Immigrant Workers Injury Prevention Livestock Industry Migrant Workers Seasonal Workers
• Series:
  Grant Final Reports
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Final Grant Report
• Place as Subject:
  North Carolina ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 4 ; Virginia
• 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:
  1-19
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20059638
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2021-100158
• 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, R13-OH-009744, 2012 Jun; :1-19
• Contact Point Address:
  Thomas A. Arcury, PhD, Center for Worker Health, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Wake Forest University Health Science, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157
• Email:
  tarcury@wakehealth.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2012
• NORA Priority Area:
  Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
• Performing Organization:
  Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20100401
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• End Date:
  20120331
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/218983/cdc_218983_DS1.pdf
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