Department of Family and Community Medicine (Dr Arcury, Mr Arnold, Dr Daniel); Division of Public Health Sciences, Department of Epidemiology and Prevention (Dr Quandt); Division of Public Health Sciences, Department of Biostatistics and Data Science (Dr Chen), Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Address correspondence to: Thomas A. Arcury, PhD, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157 ([email protected]).
Clinical significance: Latinx children as young as 10 years are legally hired for agricultural work in the U.S. These children experience substantial injuries and heat-related illness; the work safety culture on the farm on which they work is inadequate. The association of occupational injuries with work safety culture is mixed.
This research was supported by a grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (R01 HD084420). The Institute had no involvement in the study conduct, in writing the paper, or in the decision to submit it for publication.
Ethical Considerations & Disclosure: All procedures were approved by the Wake Forest School of Medicine Institutional Review Board. Participants’ parents provided written consent, and child participants provided written assent. The Board approved an exemption to be able to conduct interviews without parental permission among unaccompanied minors, defined as children younger than 18 years of age who had no parent with them in North Carolina.
Disclosure Statement: Thomas A. Arcury, PhD, reports that in the 36 months prior to submission of this paper that he had financial relationships for consultation with Meharry Medical College (Nashville, TN), and for expert testimony with the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Sara A. Quandt, PhD, Taylor J. Arnold, MA, Haiying Chen, MD, PhD, and Stephanie S. Daniel, PhD: reports no conflicts of interest
