Agricultural Tractor overturn deaths: Assessment of trends and risk factors

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 662-672

  Myers, John R ^a   Hendricks, Kitty J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Fatalities; Poisson regression; Risk factors; Tractor overturns; Trends

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954276844     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: 10970274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.20775     Document Type: Article

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