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Establishing a publicly available national database of US news articles reporting agriculture‐related injuries and fatalities
Author(s) -
Weichelt Bryan,
Salzwedel Marsha,
Heiberger Scott,
Lee Barbara C.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
american journal of industrial medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.7
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1097-0274
pISSN - 0271-3586
DOI - 10.1002/ajim.22860
Subject(s) - medicine , occupational safety and health , law enforcement , agriculture , poison control , injury prevention , suicide prevention , environmental health , medical emergency , internet privacy , pathology , computer science , ecology , political science , law , biology
Background The AgInjuryNews system and dataset are a news report repository and information source for agricultural safety professionals, policymakers, journalists, and law enforcement officials. Methods AgInjuryNews was designed as a primary storage and retrieval system that allows users to: identify agricultural injury/fatality events; identify injury agents and emerging issues; provide safety messages for media in anticipation of trends; and raise awareness and knowledge of agricultural injuries and prevention strategies. Data are primarily collected through Google Alerts and a digital media subscription service. Articles are screened, reviewed, coded, and entered into the system. Results As of January 1, 2018, the system contained 3028 unique incidents. Of those, 650 involved youth, and 1807 were fatalities. The system also had registered 329 users from 39 countries. Conclusions AgInjuryNews combines injury reports into one dataset and may be the most current and comprehensive publicly available collection of news reports on agricultural injuries and deaths.