Excerpts: A little more than a fourth of the fatal accidents to farm people during 1949-53 occurred on the farm but outside the home. Far too many were young people who either had not acquired the skills necessary to avoid accidents or were not properly safeguarded by their parents. Farm machinery ranked first as a cause of these fatalities. Other major causes of fatalities included drownings, firearms, and falls. The age group 15 to 19 suffered the greatest number of fatal accidents, followed in order by the 10 to 14 and the under 5 age groupings. Males sustained about 91 percent, and females 9 percent, of the fatalities. Fatal accidents to girls under 5 years of age occurred at more than twice the average rate of 2.1 per 100,000 females. For boys in the same age group, the accident rate was only half the average rate of 18.5 for all males. Women 75 and older sustained fatalities nearly 4 times the 2.1 average for all females. For men in this older age group, the accident rate was nearly 3 times the average of 18.5 for all males. Of all females, women from 20 to 60 had the lowest fatality rates.