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References used for this fact sheet
- Unintentional machinery injury on farms in Victoria [online], Monash University Accident Research Centre. More information here.
- Farm machinery injury: injury involving tractor run-over [online] (434KB, pdf), Australian Centre for Agricultural Health and Safety. More information here.
- ‘Preventing unintentional farm injury’ [online], in Hazard, vol. 68, Victorian Injury Surveillance Unit, Monash University.
- Guarding grain augers [online] (669KB, pdf), Farmsafe. More information here.
- Injuries to Scottish farmers while tagging and clipping cattle [online] (146KB, pdf), Occupational Medicine, Oxford Journals UK. More information here.
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