| Table 4: Recommendations for the prevention of fatal work-related farm injuries |
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| Finding |
Recommendation |
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| People aged 60 and over had a rate of death 4 times that of the remaining farm population |
Effective safety initiatives aimed at older farm operators are clearly needed |
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| Among cases that listed the person involved, farm owner-operators accounted for 60% of the people killed |
Farm owner-operators must be targetted in farm injury prevention programs |
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| Children under 15 years of age accounted for 10% of the people killed |
Comprehensive farm safety programs aimed at children are needed |
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| Tractors were involved in 48% of the deaths |
Farm safety specialists should continue to make farm tractor safety a major priority |
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| Entanglement in machinery was the most common circumstance leading to death, accounting for 10% of cases |
Manufacturers and farm safety specialists should increase their efforts to promote and enforce the safe-guarding of all farm vehicles and machinery |
