Agricultural Machine-related Deaths

Overview

Journal Am J Public Health

Specialty Public Health

Date 1991 Jun 1

PMID 2029052

Citations 13

Authors

J R Etherton

J R Myers

R C Jensen

J C Russell

R W Braddee

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Abstract

Analysis of 1980-1985 death certificate data for the United States indicated that an average of 369 occupational deaths per year involved agricultural machinery as the external cause of death. Out of all agricultural machine-related deaths, tractors accounted for 69 percent. Over half of these tractor-related deaths were rollovers. There is a need for public health programs to affect greater use of rollover protective structures (ROPS) on farm tractors.

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