What about the Rest of Them? Fatal Injuries Related to Production Agriculture Not Captured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI)

Bryan Weichelt; Erika Scott; Rick Burke; John Shutske; Serap Gorucu; Wayne Sanderson; Murray Madsen; Emily Redmond; Dennis J. Murphy; Risto Rautiainen

doi:10.1080/1059924X.2021.1956663

What about the Rest of Them? Fatal Injuries Related to Production Agriculture Not Captured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI)

Bryan Weichelt, Erika Scott, Rick Burke, John Shutske, Serap Gorucu, Wayne Sanderson, Murray Madsen, Emily Redmond, Dennis J. Murphy, Risto Rautiainen

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Surveillance of injuries in production agriculture is necessary to inform stakeholders about workplace hazards and risks in order to improve and advance injury prevention policies and practices for this dangerous industry. The most comprehensive fatal injury surveillance effort currently in the United States is the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI), which covers occupational fatalities in all U.S. industries, including production agriculture. However, this surveillance does not include many categories of fatalities that occur during agricultural work or on production agriculture worksites. To better capture the human cost of production agriculture, the authors of this paper call for the collection of additional data with a broader scope that supplements, not replaces, the current CFOI. This paper describes challenges in surveillance, highlights key procedural gaps, and offers recommendations for advancing national surveillance of fatal traumatic injuries associated with production agriculture.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	35-40
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of Agromedicine
Volume	27
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/1059924X.2021.1956663
State	Published - 2022

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Funding Information:
support was provided through the National Farm Medicine Center, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, and National Children’s Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety through the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Cooperative Agreement U54 OH009568. Funding support was also provided by the Northeast Center for Occupational Health and Safety through the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Cooperative Agreement U54 OH007542, and the Central States Center for Agricultural Safety and Health via the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Cooperative Agreement U54 OH010162. The authors thank Dr. Mark Purschwitz for his input and guidance during the initial development of the manuscript. The authors would also like to thank Marie Fleisner and Emily Andreae of the Marshfield Clinic Research Institute for their assistance with editing the manuscript.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Keywords

Injury
agriculture
fatality
surveillance

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Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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Weichelt, B., Scott, E., Burke, R., Shutske, J., Gorucu, S., Sanderson, W., Madsen, M., Redmond, E., Murphy, D. J., & Rautiainen, R. (2022). What about the Rest of Them? Fatal Injuries Related to Production Agriculture Not Captured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI). Journal of Agromedicine, 27(1), 35-40. https://doi.org/10.1080/1059924X.2021.1956663

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What about the Rest of Them? Fatal Injuries Related to Production Agriculture Not Captured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI)

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