NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - More than 26,000 kids and adolescents get injured on farms and ranches in the U.S. every year, racking up costs of more than $1.4 billion, according to new research. The study, released Monday in the journal Pediatrics, is the first to give an overall estimate of fatal and non-fatal child injuries related to farm life in America. Less than a third of the accidents were work-related and only 84 were fatal, researchers found based on 2001-2006 Childhood Agricultural Injury Surveys. ...
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