On a statistical basis, this represents one injury per every 14 farms in 1990. A total of 1.90 million hours of exposure to farm work was reported in the survey. Injury rates, per million hours of work exposure, for family members and hired workers were calculated. The injury rate for family members was 22.9 injuries per million hours of work exposure. The rate for hired workers was 27.9 per million hours of farm work.
Work injuries appear correlated with worker's age.
Nearly one-third of the injuries occurred to workers aged 45 to 64 years. No children under the age of 15 were reported to be injured. The oldest victim of an accident was 77 years old. Table 1 shows the percentage of work injuries experienced by age groups. The work injury rates by age group could not be calculated due to lack of data.