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Muller, J.; Petti, D.; Li, C.; Gorucu, S.; Pilz, M.; Weichelt, B.P. Large Language Models for Agricultural Injury Surveillance. Safety 2025, 11, 15.

Weichelt, B. P., Pilz, M., Burke, R., Puthoff, D., & Namkoong, K. (2023). The Potential of AI and ChatGPT in Improving Agricultural Injury and Illness Surveillance Programming and Dissemination. Journal of Agromedicine, 29(2), 150–154.

Scott, E., Weichelt, B. P., & Lincoln, J. (2024). Journal of Agromedicine Special Issue on Surveillance. Journal of Agromedicine, 29(2), 119–121.

Sorensen, J. A., Milkovich, P. J., Khorsandi, F., Gorucu, S., Weichelt, B. P., Scott, E., & Johnson, A. (2024). Tractors, Trees, and Rollover Protective Structures: A Cause for Concern. Journal of Agromedicine, 29(2), 162–167.

Perez-Sanz SB, Garcia K, Milkovich P, et al. The news about rollover protective structures: findings from an analysis of news from Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, and Missouri. Am J Ind Med. 2023;66:558-560. doi:10.1002/ajim.23490

Bryan P. Weichelt, Matthew Pilz, Richard Burke, David Puthoff, and Kang Namkoong. (2023) The Potential of AI and ChatGPT in Improving Agricultural Injury and Illness Surveillance Programming and Dissemination, Journal of Agromedicine, DOI:

Weichelt, B. P., Schwebel, D. C., & Gorucu, S. (2023). The backover threat: adopting thermal imaging infrared sensor for agricultural safety. Journal of Injury and Violence Research, 15(2).

Nicole Becklinger (2023) Animal-Related Injuries and Fatalities in the AgInjurynews Collection, Journal of Agromedicine

Weichelt BP, Gorucu S, Burke RR, Salzwedel MA, Murphy DJ and Lee BC (2022) Agricultural youth injuries: An updated review of cases from U.S. news media reports, 2016–2021. Front. Public Health 10:1045858. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.1045858

Gorucu, S.; Weichelt, B.; Burke, R. Injuries and Fatalities Related to Skid Steers: 2015–2020. Safety 2022, 8, 56.

Erika Scott, Bryan Weichelt & Jennifer Lincoln (2022) The Future of U.S. Agricultural Injury Surveillance Needs Collaboration, Journal of Agromedicine, DOI: 10.1080/1059924X.2022.2148032

Schwebel D., Hasan., Weichelt B. (2022) Could Wearables Protect Youth and Children on Farms?, Journal of Agromedicine, DOI: 10.1080/1059924X.2022.2140735

Maryann M. Lovern, Hunter F. Massey, Catherine A. DiBenedetto. 2022. A Summary of South Carolina's Agricultural Incident Rates used to Improve an Agricultural Safety Program. Written for presentation at the 2022 ASABE Annual International Meeting. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13031/aim.202200848

Weichelt, B.; Burke, R.; Redmond, E.; Shutske, J. Farm Suicides in Wisconsin, 2017–2018: Preliminary Findings and a Call for Future Research. Safety 2021, 7, 51. https://doi.org/10.3390/safety7030051

Gorucu S, Weichelt B, Diehl D, Galindo S. (2021). An Overview of Agricultural Injuries in Florida from 2015 to 2019. Journal of Agricultural Safety and Health.

Burke, R.; Pilz, M.; Redmond, E.; Gorucu, S.; Weichelt, B. Stakeholders’ Consumption of Agricultural Injury Reports from News Media: A Six-Year Analysis of Website Usage and Visitor Analytics. Safety 2021, 7, 48.

Weichelt B, Gorucu S, Shutske J, Scott E, Burke R, Sanderson W, Madsen M, Murphy D, and Rautiainen R. (2021) What About the Rest of Them? Fatal Injuries Related to Production Agriculture Not Captured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI), Journal of Agromedicine, DOI: 10.1080/1059924X.2021.1956663

Gorucu S., Weichelt B. Injuries Involving Skid Steers: What can we Learn? ASABE Conference Paper. 2021.

Gorucu S, Weichelt B, Redmond E and Murphy D. 2020. Coding agricultural injury: Factors affecting coder agreement, Journal of Safety Research.

Weichelt B, Nambisan P, Burke R, & Bendixsen C. (2020) Finding the Edges of Problems: Social Media as an Exploratory Research Tool, Journal of Agromedicine, DOI: 10.1080/1059924X.2020.1815624

Burke RR, Weichelt BP, Namkoong K Facebook Ads Manager as a Recruitment Tool for a Health and Safety Survey of Farm Mothers: Pilot Study JMIR Form Res 2021;5(4):e19022 doi: 10.2196/19022

Weichelt B, Gorucu S, Jennissen C, Denning G, Oesch S Assessing the Emergent Public Health Concern of All-Terrain Vehicle Injuries in Rural and Agricultural Environments: Initial Review of Available National Datasets in the United States JMIR Public Health Surveill 2020;6(2):e15477 DOI: 10.2196/15477

Weichelt B, Heimonen T, Gorucu S, Redmond E, Vechinski J, Pflughoeft K, Bendixsen C, Salzwedel M, Scott E, Namkoong K, Purschwitz M, Rautiainen R, Murphy DJ. Redesigning a Sentinel Surveillance System for Collecting and Disseminating Near Real-Time Agricultural Injury Reports: System Usability Study. JMIR Form Res 2019;3(3):e13621. DOI: 10.2196/13621

Bryan Weichelt, Serap Gorucu, Dennis Murphy, Anita Alves Pena, Marsha Salzwedel & Barbara C. Lee (2019) Agricultural Youth Injuries: A Review of 2015-2017 Cases from U.S. News Media Reports, Journal of Agromedicine, 24:3, 298-308, DOI: 10.1080/1059924X.2019.1605955

Murphy D, Gorucu S, Weichelt B, Scott E, Purschwitz M. Using multiple coding schemes for classification and coding of agricultural injury. Am J Ind Med. 2019; 62: 87–98. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajim.22932

Gorucu S., Weichelt B., Pate M. (2019). Fatal Agricultural Injuries in Pennsylvania, 2015-2017: Comparative Analysis of Two Systems’ Data Collection Methods and Datasets. J. Agric. Safety and Health.

Weichelt B, Bendixsen C (2018). A Review of 2016–2017 Agricultural Youth Injuries Involving Skid Steers and a Call for Intervention and Translational Research, Journal of Agromedicine, 23:4, 374-380, DOI: 10.1080/1059924X.2018.1501455

Weichelt, B., Salzwedel, M., Heiberger, S., Lee, B.C. (2018). Establishing a Publicly Available National Database of U.S News Articles Reporting Agriculture-Related Injuries and Fatalities. American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 61(8), 667-674. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajim.22860

Weichelt B, Gorucu S Supplemental surveillance: a review of 2015 and 2016 agricultural injury data from news reports on AgInjuryNews.org Injury Prevention Published Online First: 31 January 2018. doi: 10.1136/injuryprev-2017-042671

“I am a firm believer that even a few anecdotal stories or cases or injury descriptions can actually hint at a much bigger story and be a pathway to great research or intervention ideas. Some researchers spend 5 years re-coding and cleaning and sorting data and making some nice tables so we know that 38% of injuries are strains to the low back or 25% of injuries are slips or something but WHO CARES?! Anyone could probably tell you that for free without looking at the data. We need to actually do something for real people in the real world and sometimes you don't need 100,000 data points and a p < 0.05 to have something useful and I think your collection of data has a ton of info.”

“Although the articles are sobering, AgInjuryNews brings farm-related injuries and fatalities to the forefront. AIN gets people discussing important safety precautions that should have been or need to be in place. Instead of general statistics, the articles gathered really hit home and make many of these incidents very relatable, as the victim could easily be a friend, neighbor or family member. AIN is a wonderful resource for our Progressive Agriculture Safety Day program, as it allows our coordinators and volunteers an opportunity to identify incidents in their county, region or state. Additionally, giving them focus and guidance to customization their Safety Day in a way to address these local community needs. AIN also provides justification to planned Safety Day lessons. When our coordinators present to school boards, planning committees and other organizations, they have a means to show the topics are relevant, valuable and why safety practices to prevent future incidents need to be reinforced to protect our next generation of farmers, ranchers and agricultural leaders.”

"I am so thankful for Ag Injury News. I wrote a story on farm deaths this year that would have been near impossible without the information available on this database. I am forever grateful!"

“We appreciate the Aginjurynews.org website and think it is a great asset for understanding the particular hazards facing workers in the agricultural sector of our economy.”

“Despite the advancements in disease and injury surveillance in other arenas, agricultural health and safety still relies on news clippings. AgInjuryNews is the best version of our most reliable tools.”

This is the “best public site I’ve ever seen with this type of data, better than any internal database too, for that matter.”

"We continue to use the system to inform and engage our coalition. In 2018, members reaffirmed their interest and appreciate of the collection and dissemination efforts."

"Keep up the great work with this project. I get an alert every Monday about youth-related injuries and fatalities and share it with our team to motivate us to continue our efforts to keep safety and health education at the forefront."

"I can understand if things change and priorities can shift over time, but I really appreciate the work you've done to help the public gain access to better information and improve our safety and health outcomes; regardless of the big challenges and uncertainty ahead, there has been a lot of good work to celebrate, and I hope we can preserve and continue to improve upon our systems yet even in the face of chaos and unexpected obstacles."