Society’s costs of occupational injuries within Swedish agriculture

Abstract: In this thesis, society’s costs from occupational injuries within Swedish agriculture are computed. Relative little previous research with an economic view at the problem has been done on this area before. This thesis estimated costs from output loss, health care and fatal accidents caused by occupational injuries. It is done by using data collected from different databases and from this, connecting costs from occupational injuries to the number of injuries that occurs. The results gave a total annual cost of 225 million SEK. Of this, 90 million SEK is output loss, 15 million SEK is health care costs and 120 million SEK is costs from fatal accidents. This result shows a substantially smaller total cost than Jordbruksverket’s estimates in 2007.