Agriculture Safety Hazard News

Health and Safety Issues in Agriculture: Is there a Way Out?

Agriculture forms the backbone of most economies and is a chief driver of economic growth. In 2013 the agricultural sector grew by a spectacular 16.4% and aided considerably in improving the country’s ...

Apr. 30, 2014

By Holloway Houston, Inc.

OSU Agriculture Safety and Health Professionals Offer Grain Handling Safety Tips

With grain harvest well underway statewide thanks to favorable weather conditions throughout the region, growers are reminded that taking extra precautions when handling grain can lessen the potential for injury. When working around grain storage facilities, incidents such as slips, trips, falls, severe trauma injuries, entanglement or engulfment can happen in a fraction of a second, said Kent ...

Oct. 8, 2015

By Ohio State University

Alabama`s Wayne Farms poultry plant cited for exposing workers to musculoskeletal, other repeat, serious safety and health hazards

Wayne Farms LLC, which makes products under brand names Dutch Quality House and Platinum Harvest, has been cited by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration for exposing workers to dangerous machinery, ...

Oct. 29, 2014

By U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)

Georgia`s Greg Sikes Farm cited by US Department of Labor`s OSHA for grain bin safety hazards; more than $127,000 in fines proposed

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Greg Sikes LLC, doing business as Greg Sikes Farm LLC, with two willful and five serious safety violations and proposed penalties of $127,400. The Brooklet farm was inspected in February upon notice that a worker had become entrapped inside a grain handling storage bin while attempting to clear soybeans from a ...

Aug. 14, 2013

By U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)

EUR 28m EU support for the promotion of agricultural products

The European Commission has approved 16 programmes in 12 Member States (Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Latvia, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom) to provide information on and to promote agricultural products in the European Union. The total budget of the programmes running between one and three years is € 62.1 million, of which the EU will ...

Jul. 24, 2009

By European Commission, Agriculture and Rural Development DG

Learn & Live: Grain industry hazards lead to deaths, injuries each year OSHA, Grain and Feed Association of Illinois, Illinois Grain Handling Safety Coalition work together to promote safe practices

Five seconds. That is how quickly a worker can become engulfed in flowing grain and be unable to get out. Sixty seconds. That is how quickly a worker can be completely submerged in flowing grain. More than half of all grain engulfments result in death by suffocation. In 2010, at least 26 U.S. workers were killed in grain engulfments, the highest number on record. Among the deaths were two ...

Jun. 18, 2013

By U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)

Countries chart a two-year course on food, nutrition and agriculture across Europe and Central Asia

Recognizing the coexistence in the region of large-scale mechanized farming alongside more traditional family farms, the FAO Regional Conference held in Bucharest this week endorsed two over-arching initiatives for FAO to pursue in 2014-15: strengthening family farms and smallholder agriculture, and improving agri-food trade and regional trade integration. Other major areas of work in the region ...

Apr. 4, 2014

By Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Enhanced need for agricultural and environmental monitoring revs up demand for sensors, finds Frost & Sullivan

The increasing need for monitoring agricultural and environmental parameters to protect all forms of life from exposure to hazardous chemicals has driven the adoption of advanced sensing systems. The exploding population has made it necessary to ramp up agricultural yield, and in this regard, tracking of soil and crop/plant characteristics has become vital. Fertilizer management is important to ...

Feb. 8, 2010

By Frost & Sullivan

Worker loses toes in Waterville, Kansas, grain bin; incident due to safety violations

He walked into the grain storage bin on his own two feet, but he left in an ambulance. The 35-year-old had been working for the Beattie Farmers Union Cooperative for about a year when one day he became entangled in an auger that was inadvertently turned on while he was cleaning out the bin. At the hospital, doctors ...

Feb. 24, 2015

By U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)

Edinburg, Texas, corn mill cited by US Department of Labor`s OSHA after a worker was engulfed and fatally asphyxiated in a grain bin silo

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Azteca Milling LP in Edinburg for seven serious safety violations following a February incident when a worker inside a grain silo, attempting to move clumped corn byproducts, was engulfed, asphyxiated and then died. "The tragedy was preventable. The employer should have known that entering grain bins is ...

Aug. 21, 2013

By U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)

Measure Partners With AES To Deploy Drones At Record Scale for the Energy Industry

Measure recently announced a global partnership with The AES Corporation to scale and leverage its industry-leading drone service to inspect AES' energy infrastructure in 17 countries. The use of the drone technology is expected to help AES improve safety and avoid more than 30,000 hours of hazardous work per year with safer and more efficient aerial inspection services. "This is the year drone ...

Feb. 8, 2017

By Smart Grid Observer

USDA Announces New Tool to Monitor Dams, Keep Communities Safe

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the availability ofDamWatch, a new web-based application that provides real-time monitoring of rainfall, snowmelt, stream ...

Jun. 23, 2015

By U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

EPA Awards Almost Half a Million in Funding to Three Universities for Projects to Reduce Pesticide Risk

Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced agricultural grants for Integrated Pest Management (IPM) practices to reduce the use of potentially harmful pesticides and lower risk to bees all while controlling pests and saving money. “These collaborative projects can provide innovative solutions to reduce pesticide risks to pollinators and crops,” said James Jones, ...

Jan. 8, 2014

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

TUESDAY: U.S. EPA Administrator and UFW President will Tour Lodi, Calif. Farm, Discuss Enhanced Worker Protection Standard with Farm Workers

On Tuesday, October 20th, U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy and United Farm Workers of America (UFW) president, Arturo Rodriguez, will participate in a farm tour and a meeting with farm workers at Pacific Triple E Farm to discuss stronger protections for agricultural workers under the recently updated Worker Protection Standard (WPS). EPA’s final rule, announced in September, provides ...

Oct. 19, 2015

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

NEW LOCATION!! — TUESDAY: U.S. EPA Administrator and UFW President will tour Stockton, Calif. farm, discuss enhanced Worker Protection Standard with farm workers

On Tuesday, October 20th, U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy and United Farm Workers of America (UFW) president, Arturo Rodriguez, will participate in a farm tour and a meeting with farm workers at Pacific Triple E Farm to discuss stronger protections for agricultural workers under the recently updated Worker Protection Standard (WPS). EPA’s final rule, announced in September, provides ...

Oct. 20, 2015

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

British Crop Production Council challenges Green Alliance`s opposition to glyphosate and GM crops

Dr Colin Ruscoe, chairman of BCPC, has contacted Keith Taylor, Green MEP for SE England, to challenge the 'Green Alliance of 46 MEPs opposed to renewal of glyphosate licences. The EU Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed continues to be deadlocked over renewal of licences for ...

May 23, 2016

USDA Invests Nearly $118 Million to Support America`s Speciality Crop Producers

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced nearly $118 million in grants to strengthen markets for specialty crops, such as fruits, vegetables, tree nuts, horticulture and nursery crops. The grants were authorized through the 2014 Farm Bill as part of an effort to enhance the competitiveness of specialty crops and provide resources to strengthen American agriculture. The Secretary made the ...

Oct. 2, 2014

By U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

Edible insects inch one step closer

Farming insects on a large scale is no more of a biological or chemical hazard than other livestock farming, says a report by a European food safety body. The report, which looks at the potential of insects as food or animal feed, says the microbiological, chemical and ...

Oct. 27, 2015

By SciDev.Net

Growing need to revamp national laws governing pesticides

Some thirty years to the day after FAO first launched its International Code of Conduct on the Distribution and Use of Pesticides, the UN food agency is calling on countries to make sure that national regulatory frameworks governing the management of pesticides are kept up to ...

Nov. 25, 2015

By Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

FAO and ILO urge countries to better protect children working in fisheries and aquaculture

Governments need to take measures to protect children from harmful work in small-scale fisheries and aquaculture, say the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Labour Organization (ILO). According to a guidance document published jointly by the two UN agencies, almost every country ...

Jun. 27, 2013

By Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

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