Farm‐related fatalities involving children in Australia, 1989–92

Mitchell, Robert J.; Franklin, Richard C.; Driscoll, Timothy; Fragar, Lyn

doi:10.1111/j.1467-842x.2001.tb00585.x

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“…16 Children aged less than 15 years represent 20% of all unintentional farm-related fatalities in Australia. 17 For both datasets, males sustained the majority of work-related injuries. This is more likely to be due to the over-representation of males in high-risk industries.…”

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Work‐related injury in NSW hospitalisation and workers' compensation datasets: a comparative analysis

Boufous

Williamson

2003

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

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Objective:To undertake a comparative analysis of the New South Wales (NSW) Inpatient Statistics Collection (ISC) and Workers' Compensation Scheme Statistics (WCSS) for the 1999/2000 financial year in an attempt to evaluate their respective roles in the surveillance and monitoring of work‐related injuries in NSW. Methods:Work‐related injuries in ISC were identified mainly by using the ICD‐10 activity code and payment status and were compared with injury‐related claims reported in WCSS. Results:In 1990/2000, the majority of hospital separations for work‐related injury involved males (86.2%) who came into contact with various objects, including machinery and tools, representing the most common mechanisms of injury, and open wounds and fractures of the upper and lower limbs as the most common injury nature/location. Injuries reported in the WCSS were also dominated by males (70%), with muscular stress while handling objects as the most common mechanism of injury and sprain and strain of the lower back as the leading nature/location of injury. The proportion of workers aged 15–19 years in the WCSS (1.2%) was over five times lower than the proportion of the same age group recorded in the ISC. Conclusions and implications:The analysis indicates that the ISC and WCSS complement each other in characterising the burden of work‐related injuries in NSW. Linking compensation and outcomes data, including hospital admissions and emergency presentations, will provide a more comprehensive picture of the nature and the factors contributing to work‐related injuries. Such data will inform policy and program development aimed at reducing the burden of this type of injury in the community.

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Work‐related injury in NSW hospitalisation and workers' compensation datasets: a comparative analysis

Boufous

Williamson

2003

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

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“…[1][2][3][4][5] Children on Canadian farms experience rates of fatal injury that exceed those experienced by children in the general population. 6 There have been recent efforts to understand more about the occurrence of these childhood injuries and how best to approach their prevention.…”

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Pediatric farm injuries involving non-working children injured by a farm work hazard: five priorities for primary prevention

Pickett

Brison²,

Berg³

et al. 2005

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Objectives: To describe pediatric farm injuries experienced by children who were not engaged in farm work, but were injured by a farm work hazard and to identify priorities for primary prevention. Design: Secondary analysis of data from a novel evaluation of an injury control resource using a retrospective case series. Data sources: Fatal, hospitalized, and restricted activity farm injuries from Canada and the United States. Subjects: Three hundred and seventy known non-work childhood injuries from a larger case series of 934 injury events covering the full spectrum of pediatric farm injuries. Methods: Recurrent injury patterns were described by child demographics, external cause of injury, and associated child activities. Factors contributing to pediatric farm injury were described. New priorities for primary prevention were identified. Results: The children involved were mainly resident members of farm families and 233/370 (63.0%) of the children were under the age of 7 years. Leading mechanisms of injury varied by data source but included: bystander and passenger runovers (fatalities); drowning (fatalities); machinery entanglements (hospitalizations); falls from heights (hospitalizations); and animal trauma (hospitalizations, restricted activity injuries). Common activities leading to injury included playing in the worksite (all data sources); being a bystander to or extra rider on farm machinery (all data sources); recreational horseback riding (restricted activity injuries). Five priorities for prevention programs are proposed. Conclusions: Substantial proportions of pediatric farm injuries are experienced by children who are not engaged in farm work. These injuries occur because farm children are often exposed to an occupational worksite with known hazards. Study findings could lead to more refined and focused pediatric farm injury prevention initiatives. F arm injuries are an important cause of mortality and morbidity for populations of children globally.

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“…In industrialized countries such as Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, injury surveillance studies on children's fatal and non-fatal injuries have included mostly retrospective examinations of workers' compensation data, hospital charts, and death certificates. [20][21][22][23][24][25][26] Traditionally, these types of administrative data sources on adult occupational injuries have often suffered from issues of coverage and underreporting. Occupational injury surveys typically cover paid employees in formal sector establishments and do not include other types of workers like informal sector workers, the selfemployed, workers in agriculture, and young workers.…”

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The SIMPOC Philippine Survey of Children 2001: A Data Source for Analyzing Occupational Injuries to Children

2005

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Child labor is a global issue that exists in both industrialized and developing countries. With the unanimous adoption of International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention No. 182 in 1999 calling for the immediate elimination of the worst forms of child labor, ratifying member countries have committed themselves to identifying hazardous work for children in the context of their respective legislative frameworks. Part of tackling the problem of child labor is knowing what types of occupational activities children are engaged in, what types of work environments they are under, and what risks of injuries and illnesses they are exposed to while working. Using the Philippines as a country example, this study introduces a promising data source on children's work and presents a methodology for examining hazardous work to children through the examination of injury rates. Data for this study rely primarily on a nationally representative dataset from the Survey of Children 2001 carried out by the Philippine National Statistics Office, covering the months of October 2001 to September 2002.

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Farm‐related fatalities involving children in Australia, 1989–92

Cited by 27 publications

References 14 publications

Work‐related injury in NSW hospitalisation and workers' compensation datasets: a comparative analysis

Work‐related injury in NSW hospitalisation and workers' compensation datasets: a comparative analysis

Pediatric farm injuries involving non-working children injured by a farm work hazard: five priorities for primary prevention

The SIMPOC Philippine Survey of Children 2001: A Data Source for Analyzing Occupational Injuries to Children

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