National Ag News
National Farm Medicine Center focuses on farm safety for youth
Dec 28, 2017, 16:10 PM
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An outreach specialist with the National Farm Medicine Center says the center is providing resources to help drastically lower the number of on-farm accidents involving children.
Melissa Ploeckelman says safety measures must be taken.
“Thirty-three youth per day are being injured on farms and every three days approximately one child dies on a farm,” she says. “We really want to lower those numbers, even one child is too many.”
She tells Brownfield age requirements are usually mentioned when discussing farm safety, but age doesn’t tell the whole story.
