What About the Rest of Them? Fatal Injuries Related to Production Agriculture Not Captured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI)

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• Personal Author:
  Burke R ; Gorucu S ; Madsen M ; Murphy DJ ; Rautiainen, Risto ; Redmond E ; Sanderson, Wayne T. ; Scott E ; Shutske J ; Weichelt B
• Description:
  Surveillance of injuries in production agriculture is necessary to inform stakeholders about workplace hazards and risks in order to improve and advance injury prevention policies and practices for this dangerous industry. The most comprehensive fatal injury surveillance effort currently in the United States is the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI), which covers occupational fatalities in all U.S. industries, including production agriculture. However, this surveillance does not include many categories of fatalities that occur during agricultural work or on production agriculture worksites. To better capture the human cost of production agriculture, the authors of this paper call for the collection of additional data with a broader scope that supplements, not replaces, the current CFOI. This paper describes challenges in surveillance, highlights key procedural gaps, and offers recommendations for advancing national surveillance of fatal traumatic injuries associated with production agriculture. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Mortality Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Agricultural Industry Author Keywords: Injury BLS Bureau Of Labor Statistics Fatalities Fatality Surveillance Traumatic Injuries
• ISSN:
  1059-924X
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Florida ; Kentucky ; Nebraska ; New York ; OSHA Region 2 ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 5 ; OSHA Region 7 ; Pennsylvania ; Wisconsin
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  27
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20063298
• Citation:
  J Agromedicine 2022 Jan; 27(1):35:40
• Contact Point Address:
  Bryan Weichelt, National Farm Medicine Center, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, Marshfield, WI
• Email:
  weichelt.bryan@marshfieldresearch.org
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2022
• NORA Priority Area:
  Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
• Performing Organization:
  Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20080930
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Agromedicine
• End Date:
  20250929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:c6c1c940154a002348357e1a4031547a2d82a9abb76f8562d03eb4dddd63fa68022fc04a573240c97fca54d18db793ca515291cd2b5756c2119550d3a44bf14a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/226386/cdc_226386_DS1.pdf
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