C.
Buckner
NIOSH Education and Information Division
The
Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) was developed
by the Bureau of Labor Statistics with a goal of collecting
information on workplace fatalities in all fifty states. Multiple
sources of data are used to identify fatality cases including
newspapers, death certificates, coroners' reports, Workers
Compensation claims and OSHA reports.
In 1992,
farmers ranked second in the U. S. after truck drivers with
the number of fatal occupational injuries. Among industry
groups, agricultural crop production was ranked in the top
three, along with special trade contractors and trucking,
for numbers of fatalities. Farms were listed as the location
for 539 of the fatalities.
CFOI
data about farm related fatalities in 1992 will be reviewed.
Characteristics such as age, sex, type of activity and state
of occurrence will be presented.
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NASD Review: 04/2002
This
research abstract was extracted from a portion of the proceedings
of "Agricultural Safety and Health: Detection, Prevention and
Intervention," a conference presented by the Ohio State University
and the Ohio Department of Health, sponsored by the Centers
for Disease Control/National Institute for Occupational Safety
and Health.
The
author noted above is from the Ohio Department of Health,
Columbus, Ohio.
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