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 newest national report Agricultural Fatalities in Canada 1990 to 2005
can be downloaded free from this site. 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%), traffic collisions (7.3%), and being pinned or struck by a machine (7.0%).
This new report describes the magnitude of the agricultural fatality
problem in Canada and examines age-related patterns of injury. A main
objective of CAISP is to identify agricultural injury patterns in order to
facilitate the design and targeting of specific prevention initiatives. Also, by
collecting agricultural injury data on an ongoing basis, CAISP is able to
monitor the effectiveness of prevention programs and to identify patterns of
injury arising from new equipment and changes in farming practices.
Agriculture ranks as Canada's third most hazardous industry with respect to
rates of fatal injury. In terms of absolute numbers of fatalities, there is no
more dangerous occupation (Pickett et al., 1999). Hospitalized agricultural
injury data is not currently being collected nationally, but from April 1, 1990 to
March 31, 2000, 14,884 agriculture-related hospital admissions were identified
across Canada.
- NEW! Visit our Reports page to download Agricultural Fatalities
in Canada 1990-2005.
Our recent
fifteen-year summary reports on fatal agricultural rollovers, runovers,
animal injuries, injuries to older adults and injuries to children can be
downloaded from our Media page.
- Other available reports include
Agricultural Fatalities and Hospitalizations in Ontario 1990-2004,
Fatal and Hospitalized Agricultural Injuries Among Children and Youth in
Canada, Agricultural Fatalities in
Canada 1990-2000: Focus on Older Farmers and Workers,
Agricultural Runovers in Canada for 1990-2000
and
Agricultural Rollovers in Canada for 1990-2000.
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