Farmer Dies When He Was Pinned Between the Tractor Seat and a Tree in a Ditch Near His Soybean Field

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• Corporate Authors:
  Michigan Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (Project) (MIFACE) ; Michigan State University. Department of Medicine. Occupational and Environmental Medicine
• Description:
  On June 14, 2003, a 57-year-old male farmer was killed when the Model 220 Belaris tractor he was driving entered a ditch on the north side of this soybean field and he was pinned between the tractor seat and a tree in the ditch. MIFACE learned of this incident from a newspaper clipping. On July 10, 2003, MIFACE researchers visited the incident site, viewed the tractor and implements, and interviewed the victim's spouse. On the day of the MIFACE visit, there was a thunderstorm, therefore, few outdoor pictures were taken. During the course of writing this report, the medical examiner's report, death certificate, and sheriff department report were obtained. The victim was the farm owner. He had planted 10 acres of soybeans one week prior to the fatal incident. The family-owned farm did not have a written farm safety plan. Recommendations: 1. When mowing or planting, leave a visual cue to identify the edge of drainage ditches or other land depressions. 2. If the front-end loader is not to be used for an extended period, the loader should be removed from the tractor if equipped with a "quick detach" loader mechanism. 3. Travel with the loader bucket at the lowest possible height.
• Content Notes:
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• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Agriculture Farmers Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Safety Safety Management
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-potential Accident-prevention Agricultural-industry Agricultural-machinery Agricultural-workers Equipment-operators Injuries Injury-prevention Machine-operation OSHA Region 5 Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-practices Tractors Traumatic-injuries Work-analysis 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/NIOSHSFACE03MI067
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Michigan ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  5 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20026824
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2008-101572
• 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 03MI067, 2004 Jan ; :1-5
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2004
• Performing Organization:
  Michigan State University
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  11 - Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  2002/09/01
• End Date:
  2006/08/31
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:0202e196472dbaa3ec755e2e7dc731ccfefbd104d879d822b9a9746a99c8fb244d28ea297430483cae45b295202e06fa94044b04c84e3379549103a61e8da75a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/169161/cdc_169161_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 250.34 KB ]