Supplemental surveillance: a review of 2015 and 2016 agricultural injury data from news reports on AgInjuryNews.org

Weichelt, Bryan; Gorucu, Serap

doi:10.1136/injuryprev-2017-042671

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“…Limitations with news reports data are evident in publications and our own preliminary findings [20,55]. Perhaps most notably, media reports do not always collect enough detail, do not cover all AFF fatalities, and cover even fewer stories relating to AFF nonfatal injuries.…”

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Redesigning a Sentinel Surveillance System for Collecting and Disseminating Near Real-Time Agricultural Injury Reports: System Usability Study

Weichelt¹,

Heimonen²,

Gorucu³

et al. 2019

JMIR Form Res

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Background Injury data and reports provide valuable information for both public and private organizations to guide programming, policy, and prevention, but in the increasingly complex and dangerous industry of US agriculture, the injury surveillance needed to produce this data is lacking. To address the gap, AgInjuryNews was established in 2015. The system includes fatal and nonfatal injury cases derived from publicly available reports, including occupational and nonoccupational injuries, occurring in the agricultural, forestry, and fishing (AFF) industry. Objective The study aimed to develop a stakeholder-engaged redesign of the interactive, up-to-date, and publicly available dataset of US AFF injury and fatality reports. Methods Instructor-led heuristic evaluations within a 15-student undergraduate course, data from 8 student participants of laboratory-based usability testing and 2016 and 2017 AgInjuryNews-registered user surveys, coupled with input from the National Steering Committee informed the development priorities for 2018. An interdisciplinary team employed an agile methodology of 2-week sprints developing in ASP.NET and Structured Query Language to deliver an intuitive frontend and a flexible, yet structured, backend, including a case report input form for capturing more than 50 data points on each injury report. Results AgInjuryNews produced 17,714 page views from 43 countries in 2018 captured via Google Analytics, whereas 623 injury reports were coded and loaded, totaling more than 31,000 data points. Newly designed features include customizable email alerts, an interactive map, and expanded search and filter options. User groups such as the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Agricultural Safety and Health Council of America have endorsed the system within their networks. News media have cited or referenced the system in national outlets such as the New York Times, Politico, and the Washington Post. Conclusions The new system’s features, functions, and improved data granularity have sparked innovative lines of research and increased collaborative interest domestically and abroad. It is anticipated that this nontraditional sentinel surveillance system and its dataset will continue to serve many purposes for public and private agricultural safety and health stakeholders in the years to come.

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“…Many of these also collect and integrate publicly available reports from sources such as news media. These regional programs are further described in a different paper [20]. Researchers have piloted regional injury surveillance efforts, but no recent national efforts have been identified in the literature [21-26].…”

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Redesigning a Sentinel Surveillance System for Collecting and Disseminating Near Real-Time Agricultural Injury Reports: System Usability Study

Weichelt¹,

Heimonen²,

Gorucu³

et al. 2019

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“…Feature of agriculture: almost all enterprises are designed to ensure high profitability and create optimal conditions for biological objects: animals, birds, plants, fungi, etc., but do not take into account the provision of acceptable conditions for service personnel who have been forced to perform labor functions in unfavorable conditions for humans for decades. The health of agricultural workers is negatively affected not only by hard physical labor, but also by unfavorable microclimatic conditions, various chemical and biological substances, and poisons directly in a number of technological operations [7][8][9].…”

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“…According to the International labour organization, economic losses caused by accidents and occupational diseases account for about 3-4% of GDP in industrialized countries and create significant economic problems for farmers [1][2].…”

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Influence of working conditions on the economy of an agricultural enterprise

Shirokov

Tikhnenko

2020

E3S Web Conf.

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The article deals with the problems of increasing the economic efficiency of agricultural enterprises by improving working conditions, reducing the level of exposure to harmful and dangerous production factors. The purpose of the article is to analyze methodological approaches to forecasting possible economic losses of agricultural enterprises due to the presence of harmful or dangerous working conditions and to develop organizational and management solutions to reduce these losses. Economic services of agricultural enterprises need to have a methodology for assessing real economic losses due to unfavorable working conditions at enterprises, which will give employers an understanding that the costs of labor protection and safety not only pay off, but also give a significant economic effect and contribute to improving the profitability of production and allow them to make informed management decisions. It is shown that forecasting economic damage from occupational diseases and industrial injuries, accidents is a complex task, but it is quite solvable on the basis of the procedure for assessing and managing occupational risks and applying known patterns of crop losses or animal productivity due to violations of agrotechnical deadlines or animal maintenance regime due to the absence of an injured employee at the workplace.

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“…Regional and state-based programs have been initiated to help supplement injury surveillance gaps by tracking media reports such as Google Alerts and subscription-based media crawler services (Wickman, 2015;Field, 2015;Weichelt and Gorucu, 2018;Riedel and Field, 2013;Ehlers and Field, 2017;Marlenga et al, 2017). These surveillance efforts allow researchers to develop a more complete picture of safety issues in agriculture, particularly for special populations such as youth and Anabaptist (Plain Sect).…”

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Fatal Agricultural Injuries in Pennsylvania, 2015-2017: A Comparative Analysis of Two Systems’ Data Collection Methods and Datasets

Gorucu¹,

Weichelt²,

Pate³

2019

Journal of Agricultural Safety and Health

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tified in Pennsylvania across both systems. Differences between the two systems included coding, such as victim age and demographics, as well as inclusion criteria, such as the time between the incident and victim death. Of the 104 agricultural fatalities, 73% were identified through the PA-FF dataset, and 53% were identified through the AIN dataset. AIN included a higher proportion of female victims and roadway incidents, whereas PA-FF included a significantly higher proportion of the identified Anabaptist cases ( 2 = 22.329, df = 2, p < 0.001). Although PA-FF may have an advantage by including death certificates, this study revealed that PA-FF alone missed mortality data and certain risk factors, such as roadway fatalities related to farm equipment. When comparing two datasets, the inclusion criteria should be considered. Supplemental surveillance programs such as these would benefit from a periodic review between two or more datasets to ensure that agricultural fatalities are captured more accurately.

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Supplemental surveillance: a review of 2015 and 2016 agricultural injury data from news reports on AgInjuryNews.org

Abstract: This study demonstrated that data from AgInjuryNew.org is consistent with previous literature, and it can supply up-to-date data as an open-source surveillance supplement, disseminated for health and safety stakeholders.

Cited by 26 publications

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Redesigning a Sentinel Surveillance System for Collecting and Disseminating Near Real-Time Agricultural Injury Reports: System Usability Study

Redesigning a Sentinel Surveillance System for Collecting and Disseminating Near Real-Time Agricultural Injury Reports: System Usability Study

Influence of working conditions on the economy of an agricultural enterprise

Fatal Agricultural Injuries in Pennsylvania, 2015-2017: A Comparative Analysis of Two Systems’ Data Collection Methods and Datasets

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