FARM INJURY FACTS AND STATISTICS

• Agriculture has the highest rate of disabling injuries among all industries.

• Farmers are 5 times more likely to be killed through occupational-related accident than workers in all other industries.

• On average, 114 people are killed and another 1499 are seriously injured by farm-related incidents in Canada each year.

• Since 1997 Alberta has averaged 19 deaths each year due to farm-related accidents.

• In Alberta in the past 9 years, children aged 0-17 accounted for 19% of farm-related fatalities.

• Since 1997 an average of 1489 farm-related injuries are seen in hospital emergency departments in Alberta each year.

• Children aged 0-17 account for 15% of the farm-related injuries in Alberta

• A recently published 12-year study by the Canadian Agricultural Injury Surveillance Program found the following costs for farm-related accidents:

Farm safety is a choice – not an act of fate.  Many injury incidents are preventable!

The findings below were gathered through the Farm Accident Monitoring System.

Alberta Agriculture, Food and Rural Development instituted (FAMS) to provide information on farm-related injuries and fatalities in Alberta.

Approximately 70% of the rural hospital in the province report farm-related injuries through the (FAMS) system.

Farm-related deaths in Alberta from 1997-2005:   Children aged 0-18 accounted for 20%  

Farm-related injuries in Alberta from 1997-2005: Children aged 0-18 accounted for 15%