September 18-24, 2016, is National Farm Safety and Health Week (NFSHW). This annual event, begun by the National Safety Council in 1944, promotes safe and healthy practices on farms and ranches around the U.S. Agriculture is among our most hazardous industries, with a work-related fatal injury rate of 25.6 deaths per 100,000 workers annually, according to the most recent numbers from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (U.S. BLS, 2016). This rate is more than 7.5 times the rate for all industries and far exceeds other industries considered hazardous, such as transportation (14.1/100,000) and mining (14.2/100,000). The ten U.S. Agricultural
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