Survey Footnotes
Record injuries requiring medical attention and a minimum of one day of lost work time.
Do not provide the name of the victim. Please provide the following information if known:
- Age and sex of victim
- Type of incident
Incident examples include:
- Tractor, including power take off, or an implement powered by a tractor, including hitching or detaching equipment
- Shop equipment (power tool or hand tool)
- Farm truck or truck-pulled equipment
- Self-powered farm implements such as a harvester or self-propelled sprayer
- Livestock injuries
- Weather-related incidents
- Electrical shock and electrocution
- Other fatality and injury incidents including drowning, slips and falls, pesticide and veterinary chemical overexposure, and fire
| Farm Safety Facts
Farm workers comprise only 3 percent of the American work force but account for 10 percent of the fatal injuries. It is estimated by the National Institute of
Occupational Safety and Health that one injury occurs per fi ve farms each year. These injuries are serious enough to require medical treatment and a time loss of at
least one day. In a recent year it was estimated that 200,000 work-related, nonfatal injuries occurred on farms, with 65 percent of the injuries suffered by the
owner/proprietor/operator/partner and 35 percent by hired farm workers. |
