Farm tractor fatalities: The failure of voluntary safety standards

T. Karlson and J. Noren

American Journal of Public Health, 1979, vol. 69, issue 2, 146-149

Abstract: There are no governmental standards for operator protection which require compliance by farm tractor manufacturers. To see how the Wisconsin farming population fares under voluntary safety standards, death certificate data were used to determine rates of tractor-associated fatal injuries. The injury death rate associated with tractors on farms increased from 10.9 per 100.000 male farm residents during 1961-1965 to 13.6/100,000 during 1971-1975 (p

Date: 1979
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