Farm Hand Tools and Machinery Accidents -A Case Study in Ahmedabad District of Gujarat, India

摘要

India consist 260 million work force of the world's work force involved in agricultural and related activities. They are using 800 million hand tools and 160 million agricultural machineries. Even though, there is a very little information available about agricultural accidents in our country. To generate data of agricultural accident of Ahmedabad district, a study was conducted by Krishi Vigyan Ken-dra, Anand Agricultural University, Arnej.(Dist:Ahmedabad) during May-July, 2013. Farm hand tools and agriculture machinery related accident data were collected from thirty villages (three villages per block) for five year period from March, 2008 to March, 2013 in Ahmedabad district of Gujarat state, India that were generalized to the whole district according to the survey. The estimated number of the victims was 772 in 2013. Out of the total, 56 accidents were fatal and remaining 716 were non-fatal. The agricultural accident-incidence rate per 1,000 workers per year in the Ahmedabad district was worked out as 0.95.