Tractor rollover fatalities,analyzing accident scenario |
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| Institution: | 1. Injury Prevention Research Center, University of Iowa, 2190 WL (Westlawn), Iowa City, IA 52242, USA;2. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, 375 Newton Road, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA;3. Iowa Department of Public Health, 321 E. 12th Street, Des Moines, IA 50319, USA;4. Department of Epidemiology, University of Iowa, 145 N. Riverside Drive, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA;5. Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, University of Iowa, 145 N. Riverside Drive, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA;1. ICF, 530 Gaither Road, Rockville, MD 20850, United States;2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30329-4027, United States;1. Spectrum Health - Michigan State University Emergency Medicine Residency Program, Grand Rapids, MI, United States;2. Helen DeVos Children''s Hospital, Grand Rapids, MI, United States;3. Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Grand Rapids, MI, United States |
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| Abstract: | IntroductionIn many countries, traditional data sources for collecting injuries of workers covered by compulsory accident insurance have recently been integrated by new observatories whose results may differ. A comparative analysis of the Italian data collection systems related to fatal tractor accidents in agriculture was performed focusing on tractor rollover fatalities with the aim of analyzing the accident scenario.MethodData from the Operational Archives of the Italian Workers Compensation Authority (INAIL), which collects injuries of workers covered by compulsory accident insurance and those of the National Surveillance System (INAIL_ASL), which provides narrative text reports of work-related fatal accidents have been analyzed and compared to the information collected by the INAIL Observatory. The INAL Observatory was recently set up to complement the collection of fatal accidents involving agricultural machinery. Italian data were then compared to data available at an international level. Fatal tractor accidents vary considerably with respect to fatal accidents in agriculture, being 10.6 and 43.7% for the Operational Archives and Surveillance System, respectively. National Surveillance System records, implemented with narrative texts allowed the accident scenario to be defined.Results71.7% of fatal tractor-related accidents refer to non-ROPS equipped vehicles and of these, 26.5% involved machines originally mounted with a ROPS that had been removed or was inoperative in the folded-down position during the rollover event. Just one fatal event from a collapsed ROPS on the overturned tractor was recorded. It is interesting that 16.6% of fatal accidents involved a clear environmental factor.Practical applicationA campaign to train tractor drivers on the correct use of the combination ROPS and seatbelt can contribute to decreasing rollover events with fatal outcomes. Contemporarily a strict requirement to install ROPS and a seatbelt on tractors, combined to an official inspection at the farm level, can increase the chance of survival in a rollover accident. |
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