Compensation system for farmers' accidents

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J Korean Med Assoc. 2012;55(11):1078-1082

Publication date (electronic) : 2012 November 16

doi : https://doi.org/10.5124/jkma.2012.55.11.1078

Young Jun Kwon, MD , Yunkyung Chung, MD

Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Anyang, Korea.

Corresponding author: Young Jun Kwon, kwon5966@hallym.ac.kr

Received 2012 August 30; Accepted 2012 September 15.

Abstract

A social insurance scheme for farmers' accidents in Korea should be established as an independent institution from the existing industrial accident insurance, and it comes to complementary relationships with other social insurance system. A general rule of the compensation system is that it should apply to all farmers in principle but the coverage would be limited for part-time farmers. The financial burden would be borne by insurance premiums and state aid together. The type and level of benefits would be similar to current industrial accident insurance, which gives priority to economic security for maintaining farm works, such as costs for using temporary farmers, rather than income loss. The compensation system might be managed and administered by a nationwide organization.

Keywords: Accident; Social security; Agriculture

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Table 1

The industrial accident by job category (2010)

From Ministry of Employment and Labor. 2010 Industrial accident analysis. Gwacheon: Ministry of Employment and Labor; 2011 [11].