Farm Injuries
- 21 December 1950
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 243 (25) , 979-983
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm195012212432501
Abstract
SIXTEEN thousand five hundred lives were lost in occupational accidents in the United States in 1948. Four thousand four hundred of these, or 26.6 per cent, were due to the hazards of farming. The death rates per 100,000 workers in mines, quarries, gas and oil wells and in construction were respectively three times and twice that of agriculture.1 However, in actual number of fatal accidents, farming leads all other major industries (Table 1).By recognition of the inherent dangers to which workers in other occupations are daily exposed and by the institution and enforcement of measures to promote safety both . . .Keywords
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