Table 1 Characteristics of severely injured occupational injuries, by farm status. Percentages are reported as an average across the 10 imputed sets
Farm Work-Related Injury (n = 158)a | Non-Farm Work-Related Injury (n = 590)a | ||
|---|---|---|---|
% | % | p | |
Age | < 0.0001 | ||
16–24 | 6.3 | 10.1 | |
25–44 | 20.4 | 34.8 | |
45–64 | 41.2 | 46.6 | |
> =65 | 32.1 | 8.5 | |
Sex | 0.3078 | ||
Male | 94.6 | 92.0 | |
Female | 5.4 | 8 | |
Primary Payer | < 0.0001 | ||
Insurance | 21.7 | 9.0 | |
Medicaid/Medicare | 12.7 | 3.8 | |
Worker’s Comp | 16.4 | 47.6 | |
Other/Unknown | 49.2 | 39.7 | |
Time | 0.4286 | ||
Night (6:00 pm – 5:59 am) | 10.0 | 14.2 | |
Day (6:00 am - 5:59 pm) | 90.0 | 85.8 | |
Weekend | 0.1328 | ||
Yes | 19.9 | 14.6 | |
No | 80.1 | 85.4 | |
Rurality | < 0.0001 | ||
Urban | 22.9 | 56.7 | |
Large Town | 11.7 | 12.7 | |
Small Town | 21.6 | 15.9 | |
Isolated Rural (non-town) | 43.7 | 14.6 | |
Injury Type | 0.7133 | ||
Blunt | 95.1 | 94.8 | |
Penetrating | 0.6 | 1.4 | |
urn | 4.3 | 3.8 | |
Nature of Injury | |||
Pelvic Fracture | 18.9 | 10.6 | 0.0073 |
Amputation | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.7905b |
Long Bone Fracture | 7.5 | 21.3 | < 0.0001 |
Spinal Injury | 38.9 | 34.7 | 0.3798 |
Crush Injury | 3.4 | 2.4 | 0.5150 |
Brain/Skull Injury | 49.4 | 57.9 | 0.0769 |
Chest Injury | 7.4 | 7.5 | 0.8079 |
EMS Use | 0.1315 | ||
User | 79.0 | 86.0 | |
Non-user | 21.0 | 14.0 | |