AUTHOR
ABSTRACT
The
findings in this study can be summarized as follows:
- Agricultural
accident frequencies were significantly related to the size
of the farming operation. Larger farms are more likely to
have an agricultural accident than smaller farms.
- Agricultural
accident frequencies were significantly related to farm
type, as defined in this study. Beef and dairy farms are
more likely to have an agricultural accident than corn,
soybean, hog or general livestock farms.
- Agricultural
accident frequencies were significantly related to annual
farm exposure to agricultural work. Farms reporting more
than 4,500 hours of exposure annually had a higher accident
frequency than with less exposure.
- Agricultural
accident frequencies were significantly related to age.
Persons between 25 and 64 years of age were found to have
more accidents than other age groups.
- Agricultural
accident frequencies were significantly related to sex.
Males were found to have relatively more accidents than
females. The difference between sexes could not be entirely
explained by differences in exposure levels between males
and females.
- Agricultural
accident frequencies were significantly related to an individual's
annual exposure to agricultural work. Persons who performed
agricultural work more than 1,500 hours per year were found
to have higher accident frequencies than persons who had
fewer hours of exposure.
- No
significant relationship was found between tractor and machinery
operators' level of formal education and tractor or machine
accident frequencies.
- No
significant relationship was found between tractor and machinery
operators' completion of 4-H or Vocational Agriculture Hazardous
Occupations Order tractor and/or machinery safety training
program and tractor or machine accident frequencies.
The
most significant finding in this study is the strong correlation
between the level of annual exposure and agricultural accident
occurrence. Of the variables measured in this study, including
formal education and safety education, the level of annual
exposure to agricultural work best accounts for the differences
in agricultural accident occurrence among groups of workers
and groups of farms.
SOURCE AND NATIONAL
LIBRARY OF MEDICINE ID#
SOURCE: Ames,
Iowa: Iowa State University; 1983. 82.
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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