ABSTRACT

Surveillance of injuries in production agriculture is necessary to inform stakeholders about workplace hazards and risks in order to improve and advance injury prevention policies and practices for this dangerous industry. The most comprehensive fatal injury surveillance effort currently in the United States is the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI), which covers occupational fatalities in all U.S. industries, including production agriculture. However, this surveillance does not include many categories of fatalities that occur during agricultural work or on production agriculture worksites. To better capture the human cost of production agriculture, the authors of this paper call for the collection of additional data with a broader scope that supplements, not replaces, the current CFOI. This paper describes challenges in surveillance, highlights key procedural gaps, and offers recommendations for advancing national surveillance of fatal traumatic injuries associated with production agriculture.

摘要

有必要对农业生产中的伤害进行监测，以便让利益相关者了解工作场所的危害和风险，从而改进和推进这一危险行业的伤害预防政策和做法。美国目前最全面的致命伤害监测工作是劳工统计局 (BLS) 致命职业伤害普查 (CFOI)，它涵盖了美国所有行业的职业死亡事故，包括农业生产。然而，这种监测不包括农业工作期间或农业生产工地发生的许多死亡类别。为了更好地捕捉农业生产的人力成本，本文的作者呼吁收集范围更广的额外数据，以补充而不是取代当前的 CFOI。