Common Injuries

Dairy

• Injury by animals.
• Vehicle injuries (ATV rollover).
• Lifting, strain (lifting calves and feed).
• Unclear causes (includes jury from noise and OOS from milking).
• Slips, trips and falls (mostly in and around dairy shed).

Sheep and Beef

• Injury by animals (hits and crushes).
• Vehicle injuries (ATV rollover).
• Lifting, strain (lifting implements, animals and feed).
• Slips, trips and falls.
• Noise (hearing loss).

Horticulture

• Lifting and straining (produce, building materials, loading and unloading).
• Repetitive work (picking, pruning, harvesting, sorting/bagging and noise).
• Slips, trips and falls (ladders, wet surfaces, uneven ground).
• Vehicles and towed implements (slipping off machinery, struck by towed implements, repetitive driving, run over, hit by tree branch).

Struck by object (tree branch in face, wire, building material, saws and knives).