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by Jtsummers 3378 days ago
https://www.bls.gov/iif/oshcfoi1.htm#2015

If anyone else wants data on this assertion (farming as one of the most dangerous jobs in the US). It certainly appears to be up there, in both gross and per capita numbers. Seems to largely (for agricultural workers) be associated with transportation (not equipment, so perhaps the way many workers travel around fields and all in the back of trucks and similar unsafe methods?).
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relaytheurgency 3378 days ago
The decline in equipment deaths and injuries is mostly due to automation. Not nearly as many people with their hands near a PTO as there used to be.
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Jtsummers 3378 days ago
And the distance from medical care means that severe but survivable injuries become severe and fatal injuries out in farm country. Near my grandparents' farm most of the older folks had moved away precisely because of the lack of access to the (due to age) needed medical facilities. When standard care isn't accessible, emergency and trauma care will almost certainly be worse.
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