Farm Workplace Injuries and
Behavioral Risks
The prevalence of paid claims for occupational injuries under Workers’ Compensation insurance and other measures of workplace risks are summarized in Table III. The cumulative incidence over the farm work career for paid claims for occupational injury under Workers’ Compensa- tion was 27% for men and 11% for women (P < 0.05, chi-squared test).
The longer these workers were employed in U.S. farm jobs, the greater was the likelihood they experienced an on- the-job injury that resulted in a paid claim under Workers’ Compensation Insurance. For males, this association, as measured by Spearman’s rho, was 0.292 (P < 0.01). For females, this association, also measured by Spearman’s rho, was 0.309 (P < 0.01).