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Agricultural workers face significant injury risks. Regional trauma registries, combined with spatial analysis, can pinpoint high-risk areas for targeted farm safety interventions.

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Area of Science:

  • Public Health
  • Occupational Safety
  • Epidemiology

Background:

  • Traumatic injuries pose a substantial burden on agricultural workers.
  • Effective surveillance systems are crucial for developing targeted injury prevention strategies.
  • Regional trauma registries offer a potential data source for monitoring agricultural injuries requiring trauma-center care.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To assess the utility of a regional trauma registry for surveillance of agricultural injuries.
  • To identify geographic hotspots of agricultural-related trauma in Northeast Texas.
  • To analyze factors associated with agricultural injury risk at a sub-county level.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized the Northeast Texas regional trauma registry (2016-2019) for agricultural injury cases.
  • Employed spatial analysis techniques, including SaTScan, to identify injury clusters (hot spots).
  • Applied geographically weighted regression to model injury rates in relation to demographic and agricultural factors.

Main Results:

  • Identified 273 agricultural injury cases across 96 ZCTAs, with a mean injury rate of 3.9 per 1000 farmworkers.
  • Animals and farm machinery were the primary causes of injury.
  • Six significant injury hot spots were detected, with relative risks ranging from 2.85 to 5.31.

Conclusions:

  • Regional trauma registry data, integrated with census and spatial analysis, effectively identifies high-risk agricultural injury zones.
  • This approach provides actionable geographic insights for prioritizing farm safety initiatives.
  • Data-driven identification of injury hotspots can guide resource allocation for prevention efforts.