Non-Fatal Animal-Related Farm Injuries to Youth in the United States – 1998

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• Personal Author:
  Adekoya, Nelson ; Hendricks, Kitty J.
• Description:
  Objective: To provide data on the magnitude of animal-related farm injuries to youth in the United States. Data Source: A youth farm injury survey of 26,000 farm households conducted for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) in 1998. Subjects: Youth less than 20 years of age. Results: There were an estimated 6438 animal-related farm injuries to youth less than 20 years in 1998 (injury rate = 1.7/100 farms). Seventy percent of the injuries occurred to youth farm residents. Sixty-nine percent of animal-related farm injuries were work related. Males accounted for 64% of the animal-related farm injuries. Approximately 41% of the injuries occurred to youth under the age of 10. Thirty-seven percent of the injuries involved horses, and 31% involved cattle. The remainder of the cases either involved some other animal or the animal was not specified. While the majority of horse-related injuries occurred to females, the majority of the cattle-related injuries were to males. Conclusions: Results from this study show that one out of every five youth farm injuries in the U.S. is animal-related. These animal-related injuries were due to both work and nonwork-related exposures, although a higher proportion of the injuries were work-related. Because youth farm residents accounted for the majority of the farm animal-related injuries, they should be the focus of any intervention strategies. Further research is needed to better understand existing risk factors for animal-related injuries to youth on farms. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Animals Farmers Livestock Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Animal Handlers Farm Workers Injuries
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Farm Safety (NIFS)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-27
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20067507
• Citation:
  National Institute for Farm Safety 2001 Annual Meeting, June 24-27, 2001, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Columbus, OH; National Institute for Farm Safety, Inc, 2001 Jun; :1-27
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2001
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Farm Safety 2001 Annual Meeting, June 24-27, 2001, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:57342eaac5c0b416724f280a7aded9dff6ad76672df396f4382a679ab81d46044a783ddd42f6b578e30115b18d9863c4257265ff05a2e5afb6f18f2d8cc642ec
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/230894/cdc_230894_DS1.pdf
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