Hospitalized farm injuries in Canada, April 1990 to March 1995, by circumstance and age group
| Age group (% of total) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Circumstance | No (%) injuries | 0–14 | 15–59 | 60+ | p Value† |
| *p Value: Mantel-Haenszel test for differences in proportions between age groups with adjustment for sex.26 | |||||
| Note: direct comparisons of machinery and non-machinery injury counts should be avoided due to differential rates of case identification. | |||||
| Machinery | n=513 | n=2558 | n=971 | ||
| Entanglement/caught in | 1360 (33.6) | 29.4 | 36.9 | 27.4 | 0.001 |
| Pinned or struck by machine | 816 (20.2) | 14.4 | 22.0 | 18.5 | 0.001 |
| Fell from machine, not runover | 611 (15.1) | 19.1 | 12.5 | 19.8 | 0.001 |
| Runover | 420 (10.4) | 21.1 | 7.5 | 12.3 | 0.001 |
| Struck by falling or projected object | 214 (5.3) | 2.9 | 5.8 | 5.3 | 0.011 |
| Rollover | 201 (5.0) | 3.5 | 4.7 | 6.6 | 0.039 |
| Motor vehicle collision | 43 (1.1) | 3.5 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.001 |
| Other/unknown | 377 (9.3) | 6.0 | 9.8 | 9.8 | 0.015 |
| Total | 4042 (100) | 100 | 100 | 100 | |
| Non-machinery | n=581 | n=2780 | n=860 | ||
| Fall | 1034 (24.5) | 31.2 | 20.1 | 34.3 | 0.001 |
| Animal | 1578 (37.4) | 36.0 | 38.7 | 34.1 | 0.018 |
| Struck by/against object | 699 (16.6) | 14.6 | 18.0 | 13.3 | 0.003 |
| Overexertion | 265 (6.3) | 0.2 | 7.4 | 6.9 | 0.001 |
| Radiation, toxic/noxious substances | 246 (5.8) | 5.7 | 6.6 | 3.5 | 0.003 |
| Fire | 129 (3.1) | 4.3 | 2.7 | 3.3 | 0.059 |
| Caught in/under/between objects | 89 (2.1) | 1.0 | 2.5 | 1.6 | 0.056 |
| Temperature extremes | 32 (0.8) | 1.9 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 0.042 |
| Electric current | 22 (0.5) | 0 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.003 |
| Other/unknown | 127 (3.0) | 5.2 | 2.8 | 2.1 | 0.001 |
| Total | 4221 (100) | 100 | 100 | 100 | |