Open AccessA proposed classification code for farm and agricultural injuries.
Author(s) -
Dennis J. Murphy,
Mark A. Purschwitz,
Beverly S. Mahoney,
A F Hoskin
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.83.5.736
Subject(s) - agriculture , work (physics) , classification scheme , occupational safety and health , production (economics) , agricultural productivity , environmental health , poison control , human factors and ergonomics , injury prevention , business , computer science , geography , medicine , engineering , data science , mechanical engineering , archaeology , pathology , economics , macroeconomics
A fundamental problem with classifying agriculturally related injury is that there is neither a rational nor a comprehensive scheme for grouping incidents into categories describing actual exposures encountered on farms and in agricultural work. Current surveillance systems are unable to differentiate between work that is related to farm production and work that is not, and to include all exposed persons in the surveillance. The proposed Farm and Agricultural Injury Classification Code is a step toward overcoming these problems. When it was applied to previously analyzed fatality data, 40% of cases previously identified as farm production work were reclassified into other categories.