Common Injuries

There are five key contributors to injury in the dairy, sheep and beef and horticulture sectors:

Dairy

  • Injury by animals.
  • Vehicle injuries (ATV rollover).
  • Lifting, strain (lifting calves and feed).
  • Unclear causes (includes jury from noise and OOS from milking).
  • Slips, trips and falls (mostly in and around dairy shed).

Sheep and Beef

  • Injury by animals (hits and crushes).
  • Vehicle injuries (ATV rollover).
  • Lifting, strain (lifting implements, animals and feed).
  • Slips, trips and falls.
  • Noise (hearing loss).

Horticulture

  • Lifting and straining (produce, building materials, loading and unloading).
  • Repetitive work (picking, pruning, harvesting, sorting/bagging and noise).
  • Slips, trips and falls (ladders, wet surfaces, uneven ground).
  • Vehicles and towed implements (slipping off machinery, struck by towed implements, repetitive driving, run over, hit by tree branch).
  • Struck by object (tree branch in face, wire, building material, saws and knives).