Hospital costs associated with agricultural machinery injuries in Ontario

Tractor-related injuries: A population-based study of a five-state region in the Midwest

“…It has been reported previously that the physical and financial burdens of non-fatal tractor-related injuries, when measured by health care costs and/or lost productivity, are substantial [Gerberich et al, 1991[Gerberich et al, , 1993[Gerberich et al, , 1998Lee et al, 1996;Hartling et al, 1997]. Data from the current study confirm this.…”

Using Participant Event Monitoring in a Cohort Study of Unintentional Injuries Among Children and Adolescents

“…We evaluated the comparability of the injury data we obtained with injury data collected via other methods by statistically and graphically contrasting the severity-specific injury rates estimable from our data with corresponding age-, race-, and severity-specific rates of all unintentional injuries available through the Web-Based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS) 18 and with corresponding age-, race-, and severity-specific rates of agriculture-related injuries among youths reported from relevant US and Canadian studies conducted over the past 20 years. [19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37] For these previously reported agriculture-related rates, we fit a linear mixed-effects model with random effects to account for variation among studies.…”

“…As can be seen in Table 3, the agriculture-related rates estimated from our PEM methodology were 5.8-to 9.3-times higher than the rates reported in the relevant US and Canadian studies. [19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37] Because these studies typically provided severity-specific data, we fit a linear mixed-effects model to obtain better rate estimates and used random effects to account for variation among studies.…”

Safety Improvements on Wood Chippers Currently in Use: A Study on Feasibility in the Italian Context

“…This brings operators into close contact with components that may present a risk of entanglement [15,17,18]. Risky behavior is also the result of operators not reading operation manuals, particularly the safety warnings [19,20] and often not noticing or understanding the safety instructions and the pictograms affixed on the machine [21,22].…”