title: Estimating Occupational Illness, Injury, and Mortality in Food Production in the United States: A Farm-to-Table Analysis.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The study provides a novel model and more comprehensive estimates of the burden of occupational morbidity and mortality in food-related industries, using a farm-to-table approach.
  
  
  METHODS
  The authors analyzed 2008 to 2010 US Bureau of Labor Statistics data for private industries in the different stages of the farm-to-table model (production, processing, distribution and storage, and retail and preparation).
  
  
  RESULTS
  The morbidity rate for food system industries was significantly higher than the morbidity rate for nonfood system industries (rate ratio = 1.62; 95% confidence interval = 1.30 to 2.01). Furthermore, the occupational mortality rate for food system industries was significantly higher than the national nonfood occupational mortality rate (rate ratio = 9.51; 95% confidence interval = 2.47 to 36.58).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This is the first use of the farm-to-table model to assess occupational morbidity and mortality, and these findings highlighting specific workplace hazards across food system industries.
authors.affiliation: From the Department of Epidemiology (Ms Newman), Rollins School of Public Health and Laney Graduate School; Hubert Department of Global Health (Dr Leon), Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga; and Center for Worker Health and Environment (Dr Newman), Colorado School of Public Health and School of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora.
authors.forename: Kira L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Newman
authors.forename: Juan S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Leon
authors.forename: Lee S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Newman
mesh_terms: D000062:Accidents, Occupational / Q000401:mortality / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000328:Adult; D000382:Agricultural Workers' Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality; D005260:Female; D019649:Food Industry; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality; D012307:Risk Factors; D014481:United States; D017132:Workplace