Retired Farmer Thrown From and Run Over by Tractor

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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 67-year-old retired farmer (the victim) was killed while mowing a field of the family farm. He had made several passes around the field using a rotary mower recently equipped with new blades by his son. At one end of the field was an approximate 20-foot hill of 15-degree slope. The top of this hill was a plateau across which the tractor could be driven in order to ascend at the end which was less steep. The victim had come close to rolling the tractor over in the past, and so it was never his practice to mow across the hillside. Normally the tractor would be in low gear when descending the 15-degree slope at the other end of the plateau. On this day, however, the tractor did not go into low gear and the victim lost control going down the hill. He was thrown off the tractor when it hit some ruts at the bottom of the hill. The right rear wheel then ran over the victim as the tractor continued to roll for about 80 feet before coming to a stop. The FACE investigator concluded that, to prevent similar incidents, the following precautions should be taken: 1. Tractors should be retrofitted with rollover protective structures (ROPS) and seatbelts. 2. Machinery should be kept in good working condition.
• Subjects:
  • Accident Prevention
  • Accidents
  • Accidents, Occupational
  • Agriculture
  • Farmers
  • Occupational Health
  • Safety
• Keywords:
  • Accident-analysis
  • Accident-potential
  • Accident-prevention
  • Accidents
  • Agricultural-machinery
  • Agricultural-workers
  • Farmers
  • Injuries
  • Injury-prevention
  • Safety-equipment
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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/NIOSHSFACE96KY085
• 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:20026349
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2012-105543
• 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 96KY085, 1996 Dec ; :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
• Resource Number:
  FACE-96KY085
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/170208/cdc_170208_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 41.90 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:a4442b5e044055cb4cabd68fef3a23c484b33ac4b50d641ae008b703c89fc8d2b6e71f32a1bf1fe9b00f4886e4299f22d1cd7f0430cd0ea6c330b2ff63960d20