TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2002//
TI  - Cost-effectiveness of roll-over protective structures
JO  - American journal of industrial medicine
A1  - Pana-Cryan, Regina
A1  - Myers, Melvin L.
SP  - 68
EP  - 71
VL  - 42
IS  - Suppl 2
N2  - BACKGROUND: Roll-over protective structures (ROPS) are proven to prevent fatalities from agricultural tractor overturns, accounting for more than one-third of all production agriculture-related fatalities in the United States. In 1997, there were approximately 1.2 million ROPS-retrofittable tractors in the United States. METHODS: A decision analysis is used to compare the health outcomes of installing ROPS on retrofittable tractors, relative to doing nothing. A cost-effectiveness analysis builds on these results to assess the costs and benefits of installing ROPS on retrofittable tractors. RESULTS: Doing nothing would result in 1,450 fatalities and 1,806 nonfatal injuries, while installing ROPS would prevent 1,176 fatalities and 957 nonfatal injuries. Installing ROPS would cost $489,373 per injury prevented. CONCLUSIONS: Installing ROPS on retrofittable tractors would reduce fatalities from tractor overturns by more than 80% and nonfatal injuries by about 53%. The cost per injury prevented would be similar to that of other injury-preventing interventions. ROPS would help prevent additional injuries from falling off tractors and tractor collisions with motor vehicles.
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SN  - 0271-3586
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajim.10080
ID  - ref1
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