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applegrove

(130,110 posts) Wed Dec 31, 2025, 10:52 PM 14 hrs ago

Farmers to face increased health care costs and they get injured more than regular Americans.

This is what you voted for
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— Kodiak149 (@kodiak149.bsky.social) 2026-01-01T01:53:00.626Z

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Farmers to face increased health care costs and they get injured more than regular Americans. (Original Post) applegrove 14 hrs ago OP

Farming is the third most dangerous industry after construction and transportation. Ocelot II 13 hrs ago #1

MAGAs want to repeal Obamacare? Norrrm 13 hrs ago #2

A final sweep of farm assets. underpants 13 hrs ago #3

Can I be there when you tell farmers they're not regular Americans? Iggo 12 hrs ago #4

According to MAGA, farmers are actually the *only* "regular Americans." Ocelot II 2 hrs ago #5

Ocelot II

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1. Farming is the third most dangerous industry after construction and transportation.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Wed Dec 31, 2025, 11:07 PM

13 hrs ago

https://clf.jhsph.edu/unconfined-podcast/danger-farm-whats-putting-workers-such-high-risk. Lots of hazardous machinery - tractors and machines with PTO shafts like grain augers, suffocation in grain bins, carcinogenic herbicides, getting trampled or gored by livestock, etc. And now, apparently, face-eating leopards. If anybody needs health insurance it's farmers.