AUTHOR ABSTRACT
During
the five year period 1960-1964 Wisconsin averaged 81 fatal
farm accidents per year.
- Most
(83 percent) of the accident fatalities that occur on farms
are among farm residents.
- A
larger proportion of males (73.5 percent) then females (46.4
percent) are accidentally killed on the farm while at work.
- Thirty-two
percent of the fatal accidents are among persons below age
25, forty-three percent are among persons aged 25-64 and
the remaining 25 percent are among persons aged 65 and over.
- Almost
42 percent of Wisconsin's fatal farm accidents are attributable
to tractors. Other farm machinery accounts for 15.5 percent
and falls 15.8 percent.
- Among
children (below age 15) 29.3 percent of the fatal accidents
involve tractors, and 28 percent involve other machinery.
- June,
July and August account for almost 35 percent of the fatal
farm accidents. June and July are the worst months, each
with 13.5 percent of the fatalities.
- Fatal
accidents are concentrated during the morning and afternoon
hours best suited for field work.
- Nearly
two-thirds of the victims die within one hour of the accident.
SOURCE AND NATIONAL
LIBRARY OF MEDICINE ID#
SOURCE: Madison,
Wisconsin: State Board of Health; [1965?]. 17.
NLOM ID#: No
ID#.
This
document was extracted from the CDC-NIOSH Epidemiology of
Farm Related Injuries: Bibliography With Abstracts, U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers
for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety
and Health.
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