Evaluation of causal factors for agricultural machinery accidents based on DEMATEL-ISM
In order to delve into the origins of agricultural machinery accidents,the paper analyzed causal factors of agricultural machinery accidents from qualitative and quantitative aspects,and investigates the rational connections and evolutionary trajectories among these factors.Initially,based on the analysis of accidents and literature from 2017 to 2022,20 causal factors of agricultural machinery accidents were established from five aspects of personnel,machin-ery,safety,emergency,and environment,by using expert scoring method.Subsequently,DEMATEL,a laboratory de-cision analysis technique,was employed to develop a matrix for quantitatively examining the connections among dif-ferent causes.And interpretative structural model(ISM),a layered hierarchical framework was developed for these causes,and a five-tiered three-tier explanatory structure model was developed to investigate the causative,outcome,and key factors leading to accidents,proposing appropriate countermeasures.The findings of this study offer a theore-tical framework for averting accidents involving agricultural machinery.