Dairy Farmer Dies 15 Days After All-Terrain Vehicle Rolled Over Him

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• Personal Author:
  Anderson, Henry A. ; Islam, KM Monirul ; Lins, Meredith ; Sieger, Thomas
• Corporate Authors:
  Wisconsin Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (Wisconsin FACE) ; Wisconsin. Division of Public Health. Bureau of Occupational Health
• Description:
  A 66-year old male farmer (the victim) died two weeks after his four-wheel all-terrain vehicle (ATV) overturned on a road/trail beside an embankment on his private land, and rolled over him. The victim was driving in his pasture checking his fence and looking for an opening where his cattle got through the previous evening. The victim reported that he drove around some brush on the trail and then drove over a small tree, expecting it would crush under the wheels, but instead it caused his ATV to begin to roll over. The victim was pitched down a 20 foot embankment and the ATV followed and rolled over him. Two hours later when the victim's son returned to the farm and realized his father wasn't home from checking the fence and the cattle, he went to look for him. The victim was unable to move, but yelled to his son to tell him where he was. The emergency medical service (EMS) was notified by the victim's son and EMS summoned a medical helicopter. The victim was transported by helicopter to a nearby medical facility where he died of complications on September 1, 2003. The WI FACE investigator concluded that to prevent similar occurrences, farmers and other employers who use ATV's should: 1. conduct a thorough evaluation of the terrain to identify hazards in the pathway prior to beginning an operation with an off-road vehicle, remain conscious of the surroundings at all times, and know the safe capabilities of the ATV
  
  2. select an off-road utility vehicle equipped with Rollover Protective Structures (ROPS) and a seatbelt designed to be used for work, rather than an all-terrain vehicle
  
  3. wear a helmet, following the basic ATV Safety Code.
  
  
• Content Notes:
  Publication Date provided by FACE program
  
  not printed on the report.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Agriculture Farmers Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Agricultural-machinery Agricultural-workers Equipment-design Equipment-operators Injuries Injury-prevention OSHA Region 5 Personal-protection Personal-protective-equipment Protective-equipment Safety-education Traumatic-injuries Work-practices

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Agriculture ; Machine (All) ; Machine - Farming
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE03WI059
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Wisconsin ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-7
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20029471
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2006-105512
• Citation:
  Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, FACE 03WI059, 2006 Jan ; :1-7
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2006
• Performing Organization:
  Wisconsin Department of Health & Family Services
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  11 - Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1991/09/30
• End Date:
  2006/08/31
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:e099037477aed6031a4ebeb89b4cd7a428c9c9e258687c337fb9e42ab932b22f607fdf571369838fb1cd8069ae17ab5414000b49142a9a6cb25ddd2559254770
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/166359/cdc_166359_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 235.66 KB ]