FACTS

TOP CAUSES OF FATAL AG INJURIES 

1. Machinery
2. Motor Vehicles (includes ATVs)
3. Drowning

TOP CAUSES OF NON- FATAL AG INJURIES

1. Falls
2. Animals
3. Machinery/Vehicles

Tractors cause 40 percent of accidental farm deaths of children under 15; and more than half of young children injured on the farm (ages 10 and under) were not engaged in work at the time of the injury – they were merely bystanders or playing in the hazardous agricultural work site.

STATS

• NIOSH identified 2,090 ATV injuries and 321 ATV fatalities between 2003 and 2011, with three out of five of the occupational deaths occurring in agriculture.
• (CPCS) reported that in recent years an estimated 25,500 individuals were treated for ATV-related injuries in hospital emergency rooms; nearly 10,000 were hospitalized and over 400 deaths were recorded. Over 30 percent of the injured persons were less than 6 years of age with 27 percent of the fatalities to children under 6 years of age. The CPSC also indicated that 6.4 percent of all ATV accidents occurred on the farm, resulting in more than 20 fatalities on American farms annually.
• Agriculture is also one of the most dangerous occupations in the US. Statically a child dies in an agricultural related incident about every 3 days and 33 children are seriously injured every day.
• Over a third of on-farm deaths in 2020 are directly attributable to quad bikes and side-by-sides alone. These three vehicles shockingly account for over half of all on-farm deaths”.
• 300 people in 2018 died from ATV related accidents.