Editing Farmer (section)

== Occupational hazards ==
[[File:Illinois Agricultural Association record (microform) (January 1944- December 1949) (16054532294).jpg|thumb|"Death's Album of Careless Illinois Farm Folks", a 1949 cartoon listing 275 tractor-related accidents the previous year, and 183 livestock-related incidents]]

There are several occupational hazards for those in agriculture; farming is a particularly dangerous industry.<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/aginjury/|title = Agricultural Safety|date = December 15, 2014|publisher = NIOSH|url-status = live|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071028181205/http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/aginjury/|archive-date = October 28, 2007}}</ref> Farmers can encounter and be stung or bitten by dangerous insects and other arthropods, including [[scorpion]]s, [[fire ants]], [[bee]]s, [[wasp]]s and [[hornet]]s.<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/insects/|title = Insects and Scorpions|date = February 24, 2012|publisher = NIOSH|url-status = live|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150903023922/http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/insects/|archive-date = September 3, 2015}}</ref> Farmers also work around heavy machinery which can kill or injure them. Farmers can also establish muscle and joints pains from repeated work.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Kumaraveloo|first1=K Sakthiaseelan|last2=Lunner Kolstrup|first2=Christina|date=2018-07-03|title=Agriculture and musculoskeletal disorders in low- and middle-income countries|journal=Journal of Agromedicine|language=en|volume=23|issue=3|pages=227–248|doi=10.1080/1059924x.2018.1458671|pmid=30047854|s2cid=51719997|issn=1059-924X}}</ref> Farmers also faces unique mental stressors, like the stress of uncertain crop yield based on weather events and uncertain economic stability due to market fluctuations. In the US, farmers are 3.5 times more likely to die by suicide than the general US population.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Schreifels |first=Jessica |date=2025-04-30 |title=Utah Farmers Signed Up for Federally Funded Therapy. Then the Money Stopped. |url=https://www.propublica.org/article/utah-farmers-therapy-mental-health-suicide-rates |access-date=2025-05-04 |website=ProPublica |language=en}}</ref>