Injury-related lost productive time and treatment among Latino immigrant cattle feedyard workers in the central states region of the United States.
Rishad Ahmed, PhD Student, College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center; Athena K. Ramos, Assistant, Assistant Professor, Center for Reducing Health Disparities, Department of Health Promotion, Central States Center for Agricultural Safety and Health (CS-CASH)
rahmed@unmc.edu
Rishad Ahmed, MBA is a Research Assistant at the Center for Reducing Health Disparities. He is a first-year doctoral student at the Health Promotion Department in College of Public Health, UNMC. He is interested in investigating feedyard and meatpacking migrant workers’ health and safety in the Central states of the USA. Dr. Athena Ramos is an assistant professor at the College of Public Health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). She is also affiliated with the UNMC Center for Reducing Health Disparities, Central States Center for Agricultural Safety and Health (CS-CASH), the Office of Latino Latin American Studies at the University of Nebraska Omaha (UNO), and the Minority Health Disparities Initiative at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL).
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Cattle feedyard work is dangerous, dirty, and demanding (3-D). Workers are at high risk for injury, particularly lost work time injuries, and immigrant workers may be more vulnerable to workplace injuries. This poster assesses the frequency, characteristics, and factors related to lost work time injuries among Latino immigrant cattle feedyard workers. Data were collected through structured interviews with Latino immigrant cattle feedyard workers in Kansas and Nebraska (n = 243; 90.9% male; 83% animal handlers, including cowboys, hospital pen workers, and processing crew). “A lot of pain” or “severe pain” was reported by 52% of injured animal handlers and 62% of injured non-animal handlers. Of the injured workers, 52.5% non-animal handlers and 64.5% animal handlers sought out medical treatment. Due to the injuries, loss of productive time was about 10% higher among animal handlers (64.2%) than non-animal handlers (54.8%). A considerable number of workers (about 40%) think that they are “very likely” to get injured while working on farms in the next 12 months.
Injuries on cattle feedyards often result in lost productive time, demanding more efficient safety precautions and regular training.
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