Can You Identify Fatal Hazards on Your Farm or Ranch?

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• Corporate Authors:
  Oregon Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (Program) (OR-FACE)
• Description:
  Six workers are killed each year on farms and ranches in Oregon. The worker fatality rate in agriculture is far greater than the average worker fatality rate in Oregon. Operating a vehicle and working with machinery are the most common sources of fatal injury. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accidental Falls Accident Prevention Accidents Agriculture Automobiles Farmers Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Mortality Occupational Health Safety Safety Management

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• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Agricultural-industry Agricultural-workers Equipment-design Fall-protection Injury-prevention Machine-operation Mortality-data Mortality-rates Motor-vehicles Safety-education Safety-measures Safety-practices Tractors Traumatic-injuries Truck-drivers Trucking

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• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Publisher:
  Oregon Health and Science University
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Guidance
• Place as Subject:
  Oregon ; OSHA Region 10
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20043615
• Citation:
  Portland, OR: Oregon Health and Science University, Oregon Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation, 2008 Apr; :1-2
• Contact Point Address:
  Oregon Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (OR-FACE) Program, Center for Research on Occupational and Environmental Toxicology, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park, L606, Portland, OR 97239-3098
• Email:
  orface@ohsu.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2008
• NORA Priority Area:
  Services ; Wholesale and Retail Trade
• Performing Organization:
  Public Health Services, Portland, Oregon
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Can you identify fatal hazards on your farm or ranch?
• End Date:
  20260630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/228683/cdc_228683_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 818.43 KB ]