Summary of Farm Fatalities By Primary Source Category
Percentage is rounded.
Primary Source Category
Number
Percentage
Agricultural and Garden Machinery
2
7.5%
Animals
2
7.5%
Fires
1
3.7%
Highway vehicle, motorized
1
3.7%
Off-road and industrial vehicles - powered
15
55.5%
Other steam, vapors, liquids, ice
1
3.7%
Plants, trees, vegetation not processed
5
18.4%
Total
27
100%
Farm Fatalities Incident Summary
The Primary Source1 of injury or illness identifies the object, bodily motion, or exposure which directly produced or inflicted the previously identified injury or illness.
The Secondary Source2 of injury or illness identifies the object, substance, or person that generated the source of injury or illness or that contributed to the event or exposure.
Agricultural and Garden Machinery
Primary Source
Secondary Source
Description of Incident
Harvesting and threshing machinery, n.e.c.
Ground
farm accident (hay rake fell from tractor forks while moving hay rake)
Unspecified
Driver thrown from farm equipment
Animals
Primary Source
Description of Incident
Horses
Injured in an equestrian accident
Sheep
Blunt force trauma from a farm animal (sheep)
Fires
Primary Source
Secondary Source
Description of Incident
Fire, fumes, smoke
Ag building - barn
Caught in barn fire
Highway vehicle, motorized
Primary Source
Description of Incident
Pick-up truck
Victim backed over by pickup truck operated by another
Off-road and industrial vehicles - powered
Primary Source
Secondary Source
Description of Incident
Animal waste products - manure
Manure pit
Skidloader went into agricultural waste pond
ATV
ATV overturned
Combine
Decendent was struck by falling combine header
Front-end loaders
Run over by track front end loader
Tractors, ptos
Deceased was plowing driveway - tractor rolled over and down a large bank
Tractors, ptos
Farm tractor rollover pinned driver
Tractors, ptos
Trying to push start a farm tractor, was run over by tractor and hay baler
Tractors, ptos
ground
Decendent was run over by tractor that coasted away while being worked on
Tractors, ptos
Farm tractor rollover
Tractors, ptos
Farm tractor rolled over and pinned deceased to ground
Tractors, ptos
ground
Ejected operator of tractor that rolled over
Tractors, ptos
Tractor accident
Tractors, ptos
Tractor rollover pinned decedent
Tractors, ptos
Run over by rear farm tractor tire
Tractors, ptos
Farm tractor accident
Other steam, vapors, liquids, ice
Primary Source
Description of Incident
Water
Fell through ice into water in creek that adjoins property
Plants, trees, vegetation not processed
Primary Source
Secondary Source
Description of Incident
Field crops (hay)
Impacted by fallen large hay bale
Plants, trees, vegetation (not processed)
ground
Fell from pile of christmas trees on trailer to ground
Trees, logs, limbs
While cutting trees, decent was struck by falling tree
Trees, logs, limbs
Tree fell on decedent
Trees, logs, limbs
Struck by falling limb while cutting down a tree
Farm Fatalities based on Age of victim
Age of Victim
Number of Fatalities
0-4
2
5-9
0
10-14
1
15-19
1
20-24
0
25-29
1
30-34
0
35-39
1
40-44
0
45-49
0
50-54
0
55-59
2
60-64
3
65-69
4
70-74
3
75-79
6
80-84
1
85-89
1
90-94
0
95-99
0
Unknown
1
Farm Fatalities based on Month of the year
Month of Fatality
Number of Fatalities
January
3
February
1
March
1
April
2
May
1
June
8
July
3
August
2
September
1
October
2
November
2
December
1
Farm Fatalities based on Day of the week
Day of the Week
Number of Fatalities
Sunday
2
Monday
4
Tuesday
5
Wednesday
3
Thursday
2
Friday
4
Saturday
7
Fatalities by Farm and Agricultural Injury Code
The Farm and Agricultural Injury Classification (FAIC) Code is a classification scheme used in some states. The code provides a mechanism to separate out incidents not directly related to the work of production agriculture. The FAIC was introduced in Pennsylvania in 1992 and revised in 2000; therefore 2016 totals can only be compared with 2001-2015 totals. Fatality reports since 2000 have been used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System (OIICS) to characterize primary and secondary sources of injury. BLS revised the structure of categories in 2012. Most changes are subtle, but use caution when comparing the 2016 report to previous reports.
