Morbidity and mortality from farm tractor-related injuries in Arkansas.

ABSTRACT: This study applied a text string search algorithm to ascertain suspect farm tractor or agricultural machinery-related injuries in data sources available for 2000-2014 in the state of Arkansas. The occurrences of tractor or other agricultural machinery-related injuries were compared with data available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI). For death certificates that assigned an external cause of death, the authors first collected all those that were coded as related to agricultural machinery, based on search strings for occupation and industry and a description of how the injury occurred. They then inspected each case individually and removed those

SUBMITTER: Cardenas VM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7427046 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature