New data published by the National Children’s Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety shows every three days, a child dies in an agriculture-related incident. The data, included in the 2016 Agricultural Injuries Fact Sheet, also shows 33 children are injured on the farm each day. The leading sources of fatalities are machinery, motor vehicles including all-terrain vehicles and drowning. The last fact sheet was released in 2014 and since then, injuries to children between 10-19 years old have increased, despite an overall decline in childhood injuries around the farm, according to the Hagstrom Report. From 2003 to 2010, among workers younger than 16 years, the number of worker fatalities in agriculture was consistently higher than in all non-agricultural industries combined.
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