Changing the Child Labor Laws for Agriculture: Impact on Injury
Barbara Marlenga, PhD,
Richard L. Berg, MS,
James G. Linneman, BA,
Robert J. Brison, MD and
William Pickett, PhD
Barbara Marlenga is with the National Childrens Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety, Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, and Richard L. Berg and James G. Linneman are with the Department of Biostatistics, Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, Marshfield, Wisconsin. Robert J. Brison and William Pickett are with the Department of Emergency Medicine and the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario.
FIGURE 1——Flow chart of pediatric farm injuries case series, yielding the 286 cases under study.
aIncludes 111 cases where the work status of the child could not be determined. bIncludes visitors, neighbors, relatives of hired workers, and other workers where the familial relationship is unknown.
FIGURE 2——Percentage of injured children working on a family farm who were performing a job prohibited under the Hazardous Occupations Orders of Agriculture (HOOA) at the time of injury, by age group and data source.