A farmer was crushed when a round bale of hay, weighing 1,500 - 1,800 lbs., toppled off of an agricultural tractor equipped as a front-end loader with a fork attachment.

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• Corporate Authors:
  Texas Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (Texas FACE) ; Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission
• Description:
  On September 9, 1998, a 79 year-old farmer (the victim) was crushed to death when a round bale of hay weighing 1,500 - 1,800 lbs., toppled off a tractor's front forks. The victim was in the process of putting hay out for cattle. He positioned the forks underneath the round hay bale instead of sticking the forks into the end of the hay bale. As he raised the hay bale, the victim apparently moved the control lever into the detent position which held the control lever in place. This caused the hay bale to continue to rise to a point where it fell off the forks and landed on the victim as he sat in the operator's seat. The TX FACE investigator concluded that to reduce the likelihood of similar occurrences, employers should: 1. Use the attachment designed for the type of hay bale being lifted. 2. Install blocks in the control lever mechanism that would prevent the control lever from being pushed/pulled into the detent position.
• Content Notes:
  Precise Publication Date provided by FACE program
  
  report only indicates "1999"
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Agriculture Farmers Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Workplace
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Agricultural-industry Agricultural-machinery Agricultural-workers Equipment-operators Equipment-reliability Injuries Injury-prevention OSHA Region 6 Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-monitoring 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/NIOSHSFACE99TX059
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Texas ; OSHA Region 6
• 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:20028735
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2010-114211
• 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 99TX059, 1999 Aug ; :1-3
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1999
• Performing Organization:
  Texas Workers' Compensation Commission
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  11 - Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1997/07/01
• End Date:
  2002/09/30
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:4bd2d393b4b409f87f968ee2cfc83b3bac8c01bc3137eb390d60f5a581e5003ed7630ba2dccb38065d8f72201e950521f48f710481a9ca1d097f8c0e8bcad216
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/166437/cdc_166437_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 13.40 KB ]