Farmer Killed When Tractor Turns Over

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• Corporate Authors:
  Kentucky Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (KY FACE) ; University of Kentucky. College of Public Health. Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center
• Description:
  A 56-year-old farmer was killed when the tricycle tractor he was operating on a hillside overturned. He had been going up and down the hill to bring loads of dirt in the tractor's front-end loader in order to bury a calf. The hillside was relatively steep, and the ground was wet from recent rains. As he attempted to turn with the loader filled and raised, the tractor rolled over several times, crushing the victim. He died at the scene. In order to prevent similar incidents, the FACE investigator recommends: 1. Tractor tires should be fluid-filled, and front-end counterweights should be used, to lower the center of gravity and improve traction and stability. 2. Front-end loaders should be kept in as low a position as possible
  
  when lifted too high, they change the balance and handling properties of the tractor. 3. Tractor operators should take into consideration environmental conditions and terrain, and make adjustments as necessary to accommodate to them. 4. Whenever possible, older tractors should be retrofitted with rollover protective structures (ROPS) and seatbelts.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Agriculture Farmers Occupational Health Safety Safety Management
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-potential Accident-prevention Agricultural-machinery Agricultural-workers Injuries Injury-prevention OSHA Region 4 Safety-education Safety-engineering Safety-equipment Safety-monitoring Safety-practices Tractors Traumatic-injuries

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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/NIOSHSFACE97KY016
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Kentucky ; OSHA Region 4
• 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:20026359
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2011-101367
• 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 97KY016, 1997 May ; :1-3
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1997
• Performing Organization:
  Kentucky Department of Health Services
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  11 - Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1993/09/30
• End Date:
  2006/08/31
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:a76315cb6e1b316e8d527b08f1623fd87f935260d11d6b38a46c0bff0799a03666d5e74e50aab546f1084b8a64a3abc51419f4b4aae5f5dd1417e4cbcc5b517d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/170199/cdc_170199_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 14.68 KB ]