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Florence Becot

  • Nationwide Insurance Early Career Professor of Agricultural Safety and Health, Penn State University
  • Writer, Freelance
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The Childcare and Farm Children's Safety Conundrum

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By Florence Becot, Sarah Ruszkowski
| Wiley Online Library Verified
1 Introduction What stops farm families from adopting recommended safety practices despite knowing about dangers on the farm? Given the persistent high rates of injuries and fatalities in agriculture, this is a key tension that scholars have worked to resolve over the years. Drawing on almost 30 years of research and extension work, Murphy (2003) coined the term “farm safety-farm risk paradox” to describe that tension.
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2025 Pennsylvania Farm Fatal Injury Summary

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By Florence Becot, Justin Darlington
| Keeping It Green
Number of farm fatalities In 2025, there were 19 known agricultural fatalities in Pennsylvania. This number is the same as the known fatality in 2024. The victims in 2025 were from 14 counties with at least one fatality across the state, while three counties saw more than one death: Lancaster (3), Butler (2), and Franklin (3). Victim Demographics Over a third of the victims (37%) were between the ages of 45 and 64, while over a quarter (26%) were aged 65 and over (table 1).
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Caregiving Along the Life Course Among Farming Households

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By Emily Southard, Florence Becot
| Taylor & Francis Online
ABSTRACT Purpose Caregiving is a universal human experience with a wide range of consequences on caregivers’ physical and mental health, social life, and economic well-being. Yet caregiving among the farming population has seldom been studied, even though this population might have greater needs for care due to the dangerous and physical nature of the work, aging of the population, and the role of childcare as a safety strategy.
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