Injury Trends for Great Plains Farm Workers
Non-fatal Agricultural Injury Trends
In our current funding cycle (2022-2027), we have analyzed data from the Iowa Trauma Registry under an agreement with the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services (#588DSA2023-36). This data helped us understand the burden of injury to Iowa farmers by tracking injury mechanism, nature of injury, and body part injured for those farmers who sought emergency medical treatment from an injury on the farm while handling, producing, processing, transporting or warehousing farm commodities. We identified 3753 cases of traumatic farm injuries from 2017-2023, and have identified risks and outcomes associated with the four major cause categories affecting farm workers — falls, vehicles, machinery, and natural/environmental factors.
Download the Iowa Trauma Registry Ag Surveillance 2017-2023 Report
2014-17 Trauma Registry Analysis (ICD-9 codes)
In our previous round of funding (2016-2021), we completed a similar review. In 2019, the GPCAH Planning core received a cooperative agreement with the Iowa Department of Public Health to review the registry of traumatic injury cases in Iowa to understand how Midwestern farmers are hurt on the job. Medical emergencies entered into the trauma registry from 2014 through 2017 were used for this analysis. The last two pages of this report contained useful summaries that were shared with partners around Iowa.
Download the Iowa Trauma Registry Ag Surveillance 2014-17 Report.
Agricultural Fatality Facts and Trends
In 2011, the GPCAH Surveillance Core established an agreement to analyze the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, an occupational fatality surveillance system maintained by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Our agreement includes data for agricultural injuries in 12 Midwestern states between the years of 2005 and 2012.
Download the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) Report.
In addition to the report, we have made the PowerPoint Presentation, “Fatal Occupational Injuries in Selected Agricultural Industries” available for public viewing.
Download the presentation, “Fatal Occupational Injuries in Selected Agricultural Industries.”
For more information on the surveillance project that produced these reports, click here.