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Farmworkers using ergonomic ladder designs to harvest tree fruit

Small Changes Can Make Big Impact with Ladders

  • by Suzette Smiley-Jewell
  • August 22, 2014
Professor Fadi Fathallah, engineer Victor Duraj, and others at the UC Agricultural Ergonomics Research Center (UC AERC) are continuing their earlier work funded by NIOSH Community Partners for Healthy Farming Intervention that showed some workers who harvest peaches and nectarines prefer a ladder with shorter spacing between steps.
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