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“This year’s Farm Safety Week theme - ‘Personal Protection-A Defense Against Injury’, emphasizes the farmer’s task of protecting himself from the many hazards he encounters every day,” Carbaugh said.
In Virginia, farming ranks behind only construction and mining in work-related injuries and fatalities. The whole area of agriculture, from cultivating and planting fields, transporting supplies to the farm, and goods from the farrii to the processing plant or market place has been pin-pointed by the National Farm Safety Institute as the country’s third most hazardous occupation.
On-farm safety concerns begin far from the farm itself. Equipment engineers and producers design equipment to minimize risk and provide instructions for safety operation. Farm safety is considered in the labeling of such products as pesticides and medicated foods.
One built-in safety progran is the Certified Pesticide
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