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Occupational Accidents Among Elderly Farmers in Sweden

Issue title: IEA 2012: 18th World congress on Ergonomics - Designing a sustainable future

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Nilsson, Kerstin; | Pinzke, Stefan

Affiliations: Department of Work Science, Business Economics and Environmental Psychology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, PO Box 88 SE-230 53 Alnarp, Sweden | Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund university, SE-221 85 Lund, Sweden

Note: [] Corresponding author: Kerstin Nilsson, University teacher, PhD student, Department of Work Science, Business Economics and Environmental Psychology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, PO. Box 88, SE-230 53 Alnarp, Sweden. Phone: +46 40 415497; E-mail: kerstin.nilsson@slu.se, Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund university, SE-221 85 Lund, Sweden. Phone: +46 70 256 29 80, E-mail: kerstin.nilsson@med.lu.se

Keywords: Elderly farmer, occupational accidents, older worker

DOI: 10.3233/WOR-2012-1045-5324

Journal: Work, vol. 41, no. Supplement 1, pp. 5324-5326, 2012

Published: 2012
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Abstract

The workforce in many countries nowadays is becoming older due to demographic change. Compared with many other occupations, farmers often work until a higher age. This study analysed occupational accidents to farmers in Sweden from an age perspective using data on 223 work injuries on farms and 990 road accidents involving tractors. The results showed that older farmers were not significantly more often injured than younger farmers, but appeared to suffer more hits and kicks from animals and were involved in more vehicle accidents than younger farmers. Older tractor drivers were more often involved in road turning accidents and in overtaking accidents involving private cars. Older farmers also sustained more skeletal injuries and took longer to heal after an accident.

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