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Farmer injuries at a high

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Farmers racked up $84 million in injury claims last year – the costliest since 2015. More than 22,000 farm-related injury claims were accepted by ACC, with an average of 60 workers getting injured every day. Since 2015, ACC has spent more than $383m on farmrelate­d injuries. Waikato has had the highest number of farm-related injuries in the past five years with over 22,600, ahead of Canterbury, with more than 17,000. Last year Canterbury had 3622 injury claims accepted. The top three types of farm injury in 2020 were soft tissue injuries (66 per cent), laceration, puncture or sting (17pc) and fracture/dislocatio­n (6pc).

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