Non-intentional farm-related incidents in Australia – January 2025
AgHealth Australia has been leading research into deaths and injuries on farm since 2004, providing the most comprehensive evidence on which to build prevention approaches...
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Non-intentional farm-related incidents in Australia – January 2025
Published: 5 Mar 2025
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AgHealth Australia has been leading research into deaths and injuries on farm since 2004, providing the most comprehensive evidence on which to build prevention approaches to enhance the safety and well-being of people in Australian agriculture. Australian print and online media monitoring provides an avenue to highlight the prevalence of farm injury in a timely manner. This report focuses on injury events that occurred between January 1 to December 31, 2024.
Deaths
During the period of January 1 – December 31, 2024, a total of 72 on-farm deaths were reported. In the corresponding period for 2023 there were 32 cases. For the 2024 period, side by sides (n=14), quads (n=10) and tractors (n=8) were reported most frequently. Of the total number of cases (n=72), males were involved in 63 of these cases (87.5%).
Injuries
An additional 133 non-fatal on-farm injury events were reported in the Australian media for the current reporting period. Twenty (15%) of the injury events, involved children aged under 15 years. Quads (n=46) were the leading cause of injury. These incidents were followed by horses (n=14), cattle (n=12), side by sides (n=12), motorbikes (n=11) and tractors (n=11). These five agents (n=106) accounted for more than 79% of all incidents reported.
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