The Australian journal of rural health · 2025
Farm Injury Deaths and Workers' Compensation Claims in Australia and Their Economic Costs.
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Mesa-Castrillon Carlos, Peachey Kerri-Lynn, Lower Tony
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OBJECTIVE: To describe the pattern and estimated direct economic burdens associated with unintentional deaths and injuries on Australian farms over the past 11 years (2013-2023).
DESIGN: Descriptive retrospective epidemiological study of National Coronial Information System (NCIS) data for persons fatally injured on a farm and workers' compensation injuries data from the National Data Set.
SETTING: Australia.
PARTICIPANTS: All agricultural cases involving fatal injury events and those being injured accessing workers compensation.
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Nature of fatal and injury events, with estimates on the economic costs associated with deaths and workers' compensation injury claims costs.
RESULTS: There were 748 farm fatalities, with 544 (73%) being work-related. From these, 513 (94%) of the cases occurred in males, with almost half (48%) in farmers aged 60 years or older. The leading agents for fatalities were tractors (n = 118), quad-bikes (n = 117) and farm utilities (n = 52). Costs for all fatalities (work and non-work), approached $1.8 billion in the 2013-2023 period (~$164 million per year). Work-related fatalities accounted for $1.24 billion of this total, with an annual cost of approximately $112 million. There were around 5000 workers' compensation injury claims processed per year during 2013-2021, costing over $1.5 billion (~$190 million per year).
CONCLUSION: The costs for all on-farm injury deaths and workers' compensation injury claims conjointly during the period of 2013-2023, includes a conservative annual estimate of $355 million per year. Of this sum, approximately $300 million involved work-related incidents. Although there is a modest progression in reducing farm deaths and injuries, targeted and evidence-based approaches are required to stimulate improvements in these preventable incidents.
DESIGN: Descriptive retrospective epidemiological study of National Coronial Information System (NCIS) data for persons fatally injured on a farm and workers' compensation injuries data from the National Data Set.
SETTING: Australia.
PARTICIPANTS: All agricultural cases involving fatal injury events and those being injured accessing workers compensation.
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Nature of fatal and injury events, with estimates on the economic costs associated with deaths and workers' compensation injury claims costs.
RESULTS: There were 748 farm fatalities, with 544 (73%) being work-related. From these, 513 (94%) of the cases occurred in males, with almost half (48%) in farmers aged 60 years or older. The leading agents for fatalities were tractors (n = 118), quad-bikes (n = 117) and farm utilities (n = 52). Costs for all fatalities (work and non-work), approached $1.8 billion in the 2013-2023 period (~$164 million per year). Work-related fatalities accounted for $1.24 billion of this total, with an annual cost of approximately $112 million. There were around 5000 workers' compensation injury claims processed per year during 2013-2021, costing over $1.5 billion (~$190 million per year).
CONCLUSION: The costs for all on-farm injury deaths and workers' compensation injury claims conjointly during the period of 2013-2023, includes a conservative annual estimate of $355 million per year. Of this sum, approximately $300 million involved work-related incidents. Although there is a modest progression in reducing farm deaths and injuries, targeted and evidence-based approaches are required to stimulate improvements in these preventable incidents.