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Fatal Farm Accidents in New York: Estimates of Their Costs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Timothy W. Kelsey
Timothy W. Kelsey*
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The Pennsylvania State University
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Abstract

A telephone survey of all of the surviving families of people killed in farm accidents in New York between 1985 and 1987 (52 of 87 families interviewed, 60% response rate) found the average total annual present value of expected income foregone because of fatal farm accidents in New York is over $8.6 million (in 1987 dollars). Less than five years after the accidents, 67% of the families who operated the farms where the accidents occurred no longer operate them and 44% no longer live on the farms.

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Northeastern Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , October 1991 , pp. 202 - 207
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Copyright © 1991 Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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Footnotes

This research was conducted while he was with the New York Center for Agricultural Medicine and Health.

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