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is the most dangerous
occupation? It isn’t mining or
heavy industry. According to the
National Safety Council die most
dangerous occupation in the
United States is farming.
The Council estimates that
between 130,000 and 150,000
people suffer disabling injuries
every year as a result of farming
accidents. In many cases these
accidents end the victim’s work
ing life.
‘To help victims, their families
and rehabilitation professionals
we have developed two one-day
workshops to focus attention on
opportunities available for these
farmers,” says Dr. Dennis Mur
phy, Penn State associate profes
sor of agricultural engineering and
executive secretary to the Penn
sylvania Agricultural Safety
Council. ‘Two nationally known
agtats will discuss their prog
nVf and the range of options
available to farmers with severe
physical disabilities,” says Mur
phy. ‘These two programs are
models for the rest of the coun
try.”
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One of the national experts is
Terry Willkomm, program direc
tor of Farm Family Rehabilitation
Management, a program estab
lished by the Easter Seal Society
of lowa.
In lowa, Willkomm’s program
provides on-the-farm rural reha
bilitation service to farm families
affected by physical disabilities.
This is the only on-the-farm reha
bilitation program in the United
States. At each of the Pennsylva
nia workshops her topics will
include; new approaches to farm
ing with a physical disability,
prosthetic adaptions for upper and
lower extremity amputations, and
the role of rural rehabilitation
practitioners.
The other national expert is Bill
Field, Purdue University professor
of agricultural engineering and
project director of a Purdue
sponsored program for physically
disabled farmers called “Breaking
New Ground.”
Field’s involvement with physi
cally disabled farmers began 10
years ago, when he received a call
from an Indiana farmer who broke
his neck in an accident. The man
already had contacted several uni
versities to get help in modifying
his machinery, all to no avail.
With Field’s help, a Purdue Uni
versity team devised a special lift
that enabled the injured man to
continue farming.
Further inquiry convinced Field
that there was very little technical
information to help physically
handicapped farmers. He estab
lished Breaking New Ground.
Today the program reaches thou
sands of farmers in all SO states,
Canada and several other
countries.
Along with having assembled
the largest known collection of
information on ways to assist dis
abled farmers. Field has devel
oped two manuals on handicapped
farming methods and equipment
modifications.
Because physically disabled
farmers often live in isolated
areas, a quarterly newsletter, dis
tributed free, lists current techno
logical advances for handicapped
farmers. Field has also trained
hundreds of rehabilitation
counselors.
Field will discuss evaluation of
Disabled Farmers
appropriate rehabilitation technol
ogy and modifications to the
worksite for specific disabilities at
both of the Pennsylvania
workshops.
In addition to the national
speakers. Ray Walker, acting
supervisor for Facilities and
Grants Management of the Office
of Vocational Rehabilitation, will
give an overview of vocational
rehabilitation resources in Penn
sylvania. He will explain a new
four-year plan to provide rehabili
tation and technical services.
“Farming requires a lot of stam
ina, and for those with permanent
physical disabilities the challenge
is even greater,” explains Murphy.
"We have asked local organiza
tions to identify disabled farmers
in the community.” He is request
ing the information so invitations
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to attend one of the workshops can
be sent to physically disabled
fanners.
The workshops for disabled
fanners and families will be held
in Lancaster on March 15 and in
Indiana on March 16. Registration
is $lO for disabled farmers and
family members, $25 for profes
sionals and $5O for vendors of
products and services.
If you are a disabled farmer or
know of a disabled farmer contact:
Dr. Dennis Murphy, at (814)
865-7685 between 8 a.m. and 5
p.m. or write to him at 220 Agri
cultural Engineering Building,
University Park, PA 16802.
The co-sponsors of the work
shop are the Pennsylvania Office
of Vocational Rehabilitation,
Inservco Insurance Services and
Penn State Cooperative
Extension.