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Historical Perspective on I-CASH: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going!

Historical Perspective on I-CASH: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going!. Or…What a Ride We Have Had!! . “The modern farm is planted with more bobby traps than a battlefield. Last year they caused nearly 20,000 violent deaths.” Mechanix illustrated, December 1948 (page 59).

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Historical Perspective on I-CASH: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going!

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  1. Historical Perspective on I-CASH: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going! Or…What a Ride We Have Had!!

  2. “The modern farm is planted with more bobby traps than a battlefield. Last year they caused nearly 20,000 violent deaths.” • Mechanix illustrated, December 1948 (page 59)

  3. “In 1947 alone, 1,800,000 people were disabled or met violent death in farm accidents…”

  4. Most injuries occurred in the farm yard • Most injuries involved 15-19, 30-34, & 45-49 year olds • Falls predominated

  5. Most frequent agent of injury…the common axe! • Most frequent agent of livestock-related injury…horses

  6. The call went out…the most need is for “more stress on the hazards of the farm and the barnyard!”

  7. Even in 1948, the agrarian myth persisted … “that wonderful little ‘quiet place in the country.’”

  8. My grandfather had a saying…”Living is like licking honey off a thorn.” • Carl Gunderson

  9. Substantial engineering design activity followed focused on ROPS, ingress/egress, shielding, lighting and marking, change in propulsion systems and harvesting technology, etc.

  10. Clinical centers specifically focused on agricultural disease and trauma emerged at The University of Iowa, Bassett Hospital (New York State) and Marshfield Clinic (Wisconsin)

  11. And, huge investments were made by state-level agricultural extension services in preventive education and farmer/rancher behavior modification

  12. “The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” -Vince Lombardi

  13. The CDC has just funded its first agricultural injury initiatives • Two international symposiums on agricultural disease and injury have occurred in Canada • Other symposia have occurred in Europe and Asia Now comes 1987…

  14. Agricultural work sites led the nation in un-intentional injury • Suicide rates were elevated • Children and the elderly at special risk • Excessive levels of respiratory disease • Elevated levels of mus-tal injury The evidence was mounting…

  15. “A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.” • Steve Metzger, N. D. adult farm business management instructor

  16. Agriculture at Risk: A Report to the Nation • National legislative initiatives • Funding of the CDC-anchored Agricultural Health & Safety Initiative …and then came….

  17. “Never be afraid to try something new…remember amateurs built the ark of antiquity (Noah’s) – professionals built the Titanic!”

  18. “There is no conversation more boring than the one where everyone agrees!” • Michel deMontaigne Now, we didn’t all agree…

  19. “The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.” • Abraham Lincoln

  20. Some NIOSH-funded initiatives failed in the 1990’s • USDA scuttled all funding for state-level agricultural health and safety specialists in 2002 …OOPS….

  21. “You always pass failure on the way to success.” • Mickey Rooney

  22. I-CASH flourished • Farm Safety 4 Just Kids launched • Kelley Donham and colleagues wrote the landmark text “Agricultural Medicine….” • The AgriSafe Network birthed • “AgriWellness, Inc. launched Meanwhile:

  23. Significant surveillance was launched • Targeted research of specific agricultural risks was conducted • New findings emerged • Social marketing approaches were tested (ROPS for example) Nationally….

  24. “Have the heart to pursue when others quit!” • Use what your colleagues have discovered. Now…for the future….

  25. Agricultural producers • Clinicians • Scientists • Agricultural media • Behaviorists • Engineers Our Colleagues:

  26. “Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.” -Erma Bombeck

  27. …the Helen Keller of the agricultural health and safety world. Let I-CASH be…

  28. Visioning? • Convening? • Information commons? • Public policy clearing house? • Demonstration farms/ranches? How?

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