Occupations in the field of agriculture are among the most dangerous jobs in the U.S. Every day, roughly 500 farm and agricultural workers suffer lost-work-time injuries. According to the National Center for Farmworker Health Inc., of those, 5 percent result in permanent impairment. Per the Bureau of Labor Statistics, agriculture possessed the third-highest fatality rate among major U.S. industries, with a discouragingly high fatality rate of 22.7 per 100,000.