The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Renews Funding for the Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety
"For more than three decades, the Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety (WCAHS) at UC Davis has been dedicated to the understanding and prevention of illness and injury in western agriculture.
WCAHS is pleased to announce the center has received funding from the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) for the next five years. The center is one of 12 agricultural health and safety centers in the United States to receive funding this year. It was also one of the first two centers established by NIOSH in 1991.
Agriculture continues to pose hazardous risks to farmworkers in the U.S. based on occupational fatality rates. In the U.S., roughly 11% of agricultural fatalities and 42.6% of injuries occur in the western region (Arizona, California, Hawai’i, and Nevada). Western agriculture is one of the nation’s most intensive and productive and employs up to one million farmworkers."