Farmer Dies After Becoming Entangled In A Power-Take-Off Shaft [97MN04501]

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• Personal Author:
  Parker, David L. ; Wahl, George
• Corporate Authors:
  Minnesota Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (MN FACE) ; Minnesota. Department of Health
• Description:
  A 48-year-old male farmer (victim) died after he became entangled in a power-take-off shaft. The victim, his father and another worker were operating a small privately owned sawmill that was used to produce rough cut lumber. At the time of the incident the saw was powered by the power-take-off shaft of a 65-70 horsepower farm tractor. The horizontal power-take-off shaft was approximately 30 inches above the ground and was completely unguarded. The workers had placed an uncut log on the sawmill carriage to begin the process of squaring the log prior to cutting it into individual boards. After the tractor's power-take-off shaft was engaged, the victim stepped across the rotating shaft. His clothing became entangled in the rotating shaft and caused him to sustain multiple trauma as he was thrown against the ground by the rotating shaft. The coworkers disengaged the tractor's power-take-off and immediately placed a call to emergency personnel. They arrived shortly after being notified and pronounced the victim dead at the scene prior to freeing him from the power-take-off shaft. MN FACE investigators concluded that, in order to reduce the likelihood of similar occurrences, the following guidelines should be followed: 1. all rotating shafts should be covered by shields to prevent workers from becoming entangled.
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Agriculture Farmers Forestry Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Safety Safety Management Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Agricultural-industry Agricultural-workers Injuries Injury-prevention Lumber-industry Lumber-industry-workers OSHA Region 5 Protective-measures Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-monitoring Sawmill-workers Tractors Traumatic-injuries Work-analysis Work-areas Work-operations Work-performance 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/NIOSHSFACE97MN045
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Minnesota ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20027876
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2006-106736
• 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 97MN045, 1998 Apr ; :1-2
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1998
• Performing Organization:
  Minnesota Department of Health
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  31-33 - Manufacturing - (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:de3a96e12cf3ca5038ebc6e3119a0b54fe53ee10124fb8c4a86bc528ef65b3bfd01e240fe8feb934f64bcef0f5614548b791b34ed10c463043c7a9cf054e87a7
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167001/cdc_167001_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 15.34 KB ]