Quarterly

e-newsletter of AgInjuryNews

Fall 2025

AgInjuryNews.org now includes 6,101 reports covering 5,192 agriculture/ fishing/forestry injury incidents across the U.S. and Canada from 2016 to present.

You can search by keyword or refine results with filters for operation type, date, country/region, injury agent, incident location, severity, victim demographics (sex, age), number of victims, and more.

The database goes beyond media coverage, incorporating obituaries, coroner and law-enforcement reports, personal interviews, and social media posts for a fuller picture of each event. You can also set up email alerts tailored to your interests. Prefer a visual view? Explore incidents via the Injury Heat Map (pictured above).

The Agricultural Safety and Health Council of America (ASHCA) is pleased to announce the 2025 North American Agricultural Safety Summit, October 20–22, 2025, at Holiday Inn San Antonio-Riverwalk in San Antonio, Texas. In this fast-paced, 1.5 day meeting, you will have the opportunity to learn from agricultural producers, and researchers about proven safety strategies that result in savings and improved employee morale.

ASHCA is a coalition of organizations, businesses, federal agencies, and safety professionals, all seeking to improve the health and safety of farmers, ranchers, and agricultural workers.

You can register by clicking on the button below. If you cannot use Google Forms you can visit this link to find a fillable pdf registration form that can be emailed to Julie@ashca.org.

If you are interested in sponsoring or exhibiting, please contact ASHCA for full details at info@ashca.org.

The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) is accepting submissions for a Special Issue titled “Public Health: Rural Health Services Research—2nd Edition.”

This issue will highlight innovations and research addressing the persistent health disparities faced by regional, rural, and remote communities. These populations often experience limited access to care, workforce shortages, and poorer health outcomes compared to urban counterparts.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Design, delivery, and evaluation of rural and remote health services
• Health workforce development, training, and retention
• Integrated healthcare models and telehealth
• Technological innovations in healthcare
• Environmental and public health
• Capacity building and community-based approaches
• Health policy and universal health coverage
• Indigenous and First Nations health
• Care for marginalized or disadvantaged populations

This multidisciplinary Special Issue encourages collaboration between clinicians, public health professionals, and researchers to address critical environmental and public health challenges.

• Gorucu, Serap. Evaluating Large Language Models for Agricultural Injury Surveillance. Virtually presented at 1st International Digital Agriculture Congress, Nigde, Turkiye, September 18-20, 2025.

To view an updated listing of peer-reviewed manuscripts resulting from the work related to AgInjuryNews, please visit our Learn More page. If interested in citing the system/data, please use this:

Weichelt, B., Salzwedel, M., Heiberger, S., Lee, B.C. (2018). Establishing a Publicly Available National Database of U.S News Articles Reporting Agriculture-Related Injuries and Fatalities. American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 61(8), 667-674. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajim.22860

Bryan Weichelt Ph.D., M.B.A., Associate Research Scientist, NFMC

Serap Gorucu Ph.D.,

Assistant Professor

 University of Florida

Juan Saucedo,

Research Coordinator,

CCEPH

Sheena LaBossiere,

Canadian Agricultural Safety Association

Christopher Wanat,

Health Educator,

NFMC

Matt Pilz,

Senior Software Engineer, NFMC

Roger Aby Ph.D.,

Research Specialist, NFMC

Christopher Benny,

M.D. Candidate,

MCW-CW

In addition to our Core Team the following have contributed to this issue of the AIN Newsletter: Marie Fleisner and Scott Heiberger. Thank you!

This is the Volume 2 Issue 9 of the AgInjuryNews quarterly e-newsletter. To unsubscribe, email nccrahs@marshfieldclinic.org

Funding support has been provided through the National Farm Medicine Center, the Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, the Agricultural Safety and Health Council of America (ASHCA), the Dean Emanuel Endowment, and the National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety via the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH; grant number: U54 OH009568).