Admissions among adults have generally declined, and in this case injuries due to animals being ridden is the only category to show a consistent decrease each year. Emergency department presentations among adults have increased, mainly due to increases in motorcycle and animal related injuries. Non-tractor related fatality causes are fairly dispersed, which makes priority setting difficult and indicates the need for a comprehensive approach to prevention. For non-fatal farm injuries, the data indicate that horse, other animal, and motorcycle related injuries are priorities for prevention of farm injury among children, while motorcycle, animal, machinery, and fall related injury are priorities among adults. This means that the cases have been determined to have occurred on a farm from the information recorded in the coronial, medical, or WorkCover investigative files.
Additional criteria apply to the adult work-related deaths and the hospital admissions.
Furthermore, hospital admissions which have been coded to an external cause of injury code incompatible with a farm location have also been excluded from the hospital admission cases. The data reported here represent close to all deaths and a considerable proportion of serious injuries occurring on farms. All information reported here, except the adult work-related rates, is in the form of frequencies.