Agricultural Farm-Related Injuries in Bangladesh and Convenient Design of Working Hand Tools

Table 1

Distribution of injuries by type of agricultural implements used and severity of injury.

	Implements and hand tools	Severity of injury														Total
		AIS 1				AIS 2				AIS 3				AIS 6	Unknown
		Superficial vein cuts	Cuts on toes or fingers	Muscle stresses	Other injury type	Deep vein cuts	Permanent loss of any body part	Infection at injury limbs	Other injury type	Deep vein cuts	Permanent loss of any body part	Infection at injury limbs	Other injury type	For all injury severity	For all injury severity
Small handle	Sickles	27	14	9	8	3	1	2	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	64
	Daggers	14	5	2	—	2	2	1	1	1	1	—	—	—	—	29
	Digging forks	9	11	4	3	2	—	1	—	1	—	—	—	—	—	31
Medium handle	Rakes	3	—	4	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	8
	Spades	26	34	6	11	9	3	2	—	—	1	—	—	—	—	92
	Axes	3	9	—	—	1	1	—	—	1	1	1	—	—	1	18
Long handle	Hoes	9	1	5	7	2	—	1	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	26
	Digging crowbar	4	11	—	1	3	1	—	—	1	—	—	—	—	—	11
Machinery and others	(Tractor + trolley + cultivator)	14	13	16	8	12	3	7	6	2	1	—	1	2		87
	Other tools	16	11	8	12	5	1	2	1	1	—	1	—	—	—	58
	Total	125	109	54	51	39	12	16	9	7	4	2	1	2	3	434

Handles can be in both long and medium range. Most of the digging crowbars have long handles, and most of the spades and axes have medium handles.