Farmer Drowns in Tractor Rollover in Wyoming

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• Corporate Authors:
  Wyoming Fatal Accident Circumstances and Epidemiology Project (Wyoming FACE) ; Wyoming Occupational Fatality Analysis Program
• Description:
  A 71 year old male rancher died from injuries suffered while mowing a horse pasture adjacent to a creek behind his house. The victim had borrowed a tractor and mower from a neighbor and, while mowing, had tipped the tractor over and become pinned under it. He was found by the owner of the tractor five days after the incident had occurred. Evidence at the scene indicates that the victim had been pinned under the tractor tire with his face in the water of a creek that the tractor had fallen into. He had apparently attempted to extricate himself but the attempt was futile. Employers may be able to minimize the potential for occurrence of this type of incident through the following precautions: 1. Discouraging elderly family members from working alone around farm machinery. 2. Schedule hazardous routine ranch duties so that elderly family members won't be subjected to added risk.
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Age Factors Agriculture Farmers Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Workplace
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Age-factors Agricultural-industry Agricultural-machinery Agricultural-workers Equipment-operators Injuries Injury-prevention OSHA Region 8 Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-monitoring Tractors Traumatic-injuries Work-analysis Work-areas Work-operations Work-performance Work-practices

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Agriculture
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE93WY014
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Wyoming ; OSHA Region 8
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  3 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20028768
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2014-103500
• 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 93WY014, 1993 Sep ; :1-3
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1993
• Performing Organization:
  Wyoming Department of Health
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  11 - Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1991/09/30
• End Date:
  1996/09/29
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:39f0846cbfcd1cb9441f0a75647fc697d6ce504c26a6ea659473f04a55ed0363b4dcfad3e3e34928a56f51847fe6858f2fcc821021cd198d22d038de29de2c94
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/166405/cdc_166405_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 63.61 KB ]