Farm tractor safety in Kentucky, 1995

Public Health Reports

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 53-59

  Browning, Steven R ^a,b   Westneat, Susan C ^a   Truszczynska, Helena ^a   Reed, Deborah ^a   McKnight, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b Dept Prev Med and Environ Hlth ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; HUMAN; INJURY; MACHINE; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURE; CAUSALITY; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KENTUCKY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEAT BELTS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0032969247     PISSN: 00333549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/phr/114.1.53     Document Type: Article

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