| | The Canadian Agricultural Injury Surveillance Program (CAISP) is a national program of the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association (CASA). CAISP was established in 1995 in response to the need for better information about fatal and hospitalized agricultural injuries. CAISP has partners in each of the ten Canadian provinces. It is coordinated from a national office at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.
CAISP's latest national report Agricultural Injuries in Canada for 1990-2005 can be downloaded free from http://www.caisp.ca/natrep2.html.
It describes the occurrence of fatal agricultural injuries in Canada by age group and mechanism of injury. There were 1,769 agricultural fatalities in Canada from 1990 to 2005. Overall, more than half of the agricultural fatalities were due to four machine-related causes: machine rollovers, machine runovers, machine entanglements and traffic collisions. The top five causes of agricultural fatalities in Canada were machine rollovers (20.5%), machine runovers (18.6%), machine entanglements (8.3%), traffice collisions (7.3%), and being pinned or struck by a machine (7.0%).
Their recent fifteen-year summary reports on fatal agricultural rollovers, runovers, animal injuries, injuries to older adults and injuries to children which can be downloaded.
For more information, please contact:
The Canadian Agricultural Injury Surveillance Program
Department of Emergency Medicine, Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario K7L 2V7
Phone: 613-548-2389 Fax: 613-548-1381 Email: caisp@kgh.kari.net |
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