• Injury and fatality
• Mechanical hazards, such as tractors
• Hearing loss
• Osteoarthritis
• Allergic disease
• Migrant injuries
• Child injuries
• Effective communication with senior farmers
• Hazards to pregnant farm women
• Zoonotic disease
• Effectiveness of interventions

NEC is conducting the following research projects:

Ag Haz Abate Training

Investigator(s): E. Hallman
Location: Cornell
Term: 99-00
Status: Currently training on 150 NY & 50 PA farms thru insurer.

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Analysis of Census of Fatal Occ. Injury Data

Investigator(s): D. Murphy
Location: Penn St.
Term: 96-99
Status: Report published. Project inactive completed

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Child Safety Day Camps

Investigator(s):  May/Scofield
Location: NYCAMH/Prog Farmer
Term: 97-00
Status: New camps in NY & Maine. Evaluation questions piloted, behavioral being studied

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Cost of Injury

Investigator(s): T Kelsey
Location: Penn State
Term: 97-01
Status: Inactive due to inability to enroll cases despite efforts of NY&Maine nurses.

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Dairy Hip-Knee Ergonomics

Investigator(s): L. Punnett
Location: Lowell-NYC
Term: 95-97
Status: Ergo analysis done. Abstract presented Sask. Awaiting further analysis.

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Effective Risk Messages

Investigator(s): C. Scherer
Location: Cornell
Term: 96-00
Status: Test safety messages mailed to farmers. Eval interviews completed on 112 farmers

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Engineer Injury Investigations

Investigator(s): E. Hallman
Location: Cornell
Term: 96-01
Status: Ongoing investigations of injury/fatality. NYCAMH to begin analysis of data.

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Enteric Zoonoses

Investigator(s): J. May
Location: Cornell / NY A&M NYCAMH
Term: 97-00
Status: Recruitment of farms/data collection on cases of diarrheal disease underway.

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Farm Partners Nurse in Western NY

Investigator(s): J Boyd
Location: U Roch
Term: 97-01
Status: 90+ contacts with farmers/families with stress-related problems served this year.

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Farm Partners Proj. for emotional stress

Investigator(s): J. Phillips
Location: NYCAMH
Term: 92-01
Status: 84 farm families assisted in past year. Over 800 in course of program

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Hearing cons. efforts for H.S. students

Investigator(s): J. Roy
Location: ME BOH
Term: 96-01
Status: Total of 414 students tested in 4 rural high schools - larger number educated.

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Hearing Conserv. & Intervent.

Investigator(s): W. Beckett
Location: U. Roch
Term: 96-00
Status: Paper published in J. Occup Envir Medicine

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Hearing Loss/Balance

Investigator(s): D. Greenstein
Location: Cornell
Term: 96-01
Status: Dr. Greenstein has left Cornell. Project will not be completed.

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Improving Tractor Stability

Investigator(s): D. Murphy
Location: Penn St.
Term: 97-01
Status: Static/dynamic testing underway. Data analysis underway

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Investig of Ergonomic Hazards in Fishing

Investigator(s): B Bucholtz
Location: U-MA-Lowell
Term: 96-99
Status: Analyses of lobster and trawling operations complete. Two tech reports & abstract done.

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Mennonite Safety Ed.

Investigator(s): J. Boyd
Location: U. Roch
Term: 99-00
Status: Education of children underway.

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NE Compendium

Investigator(s): D. West
Location: NYCAMH
Term: 96
Status: Update of participant data underway. Going on website.

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Noise on Farms

Investigator(s): R. Pitt
Location: Cornell
Term: 96-97
Status: Spectral analysis of noise patterns of farm equip classified. Complete.

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NY Partners for Safer Communities

Investigator(s):  Van de Valk
Location: SUNY
Term: 98
Status: 32 ag teachers/FFA trained in child safety initiative at different sites in upstate NY

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Orchard Ergonomics

Investigator(s): Laura Punnett
Location: U-MA-Lowell
Term: 99-00
Status: Observations in 12 orchards fall 1999. Report & recommendations pending.

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PA Core Safety Groups

Investigator(s):  Schaefer
Location: PA FFA
Term: 98-99
Status: Conference completed. Report sent

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Poultry growers training

Investigator(s): R. Jester
Location: U. Del
Term: 99-01
Status: Trainings of poultry producers underway.

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Pregnant Farmers

Investigator(s):  May/Evans
Location: NYCAMH
Term: 96-98
Status: Results presented at national meeting. Paper in preparation.

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PTO Shielding

Investigator(s):  Hallman/West
Location: Cornell / NYCAMH
Term: 96-01
Status: Shield Center established, orders filled. To date, limited interest from farmers.

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Reg Safety Specialist

Investigator(s): D. Murphy
Location: Penn St.
Term: 99-00
Status: Agent now coord.safety activities in several counties S. central PA

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Regional Screening and Education

Investigator(s): S. Scofield
Location: NYCAMH
Term: 96-01
Status: Education/screening sessions done in NY,VT, DE,CT, WV, Maine this year

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Response Time

Investigator(s): G. Hetzell
Location: Va. Tech
Term: 97-00
Status: Data collection ongoing at the present time

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Safety Education for Migrant Farm Workers

Investigator(s):  Kellerman
Location: Escort, Inc.
Term: 98-99
Status: Kit materials purchased and distrib at some sites. Eval pending.

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Safety Newsletter for Ag. Teachers

Investigator(s): Keith Additon
Location: NYCAMH
Term: 96-01
Status: Eval complete. Reported NIFS. Distributed Quarterly to Agricultual Educaiton Teachers in NY and Texas.

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Social & Econ.Impact

Investigator(s): D. Murphy
Location: Penn St.
Term: 99-02
Status: Developing data systems and of Agric Injury. piloting questionnaires.

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Surveill. of Occ. Injury in Migrant Workers

Investigator(s): G. E-Rich.
Location: NYCAMH
Term: 96-99
Status: Paper on NY-PA data in preparation. Expanded to 7 states with NCI funds

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Woodcut Education

Investigator(s): J. Roy
Location: ME BOH
Term: 99-00
Status: Planning educ program for young chainsaw users.