Farmer Killed When Caught in Hay Baler

Details

• 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 48-year-old part-time farmer was using a roll baler to bale hay on his farm around noon on a Saturday. Although there were no eyewitnesses to the event, it is believed that a machine malfunction occurred and he got off the tractor to try and force hay into the baler with his foot. His shoe or his pant leg became entangled in the tines of the baler and he was pulled into the machine. In order to prevent similar incidents, FACE investigators recommend that: 1. machinery always be turned off before the operator gets off or attempts to work on it ; 2. equipment be maintained in good working condition ; and, 3. when possible, operators of heavy equipment should not work alone.
• Subjects:
  • Accident Prevention
  • Accidents
  • Accidents, Occupational
  • Agriculture
  • Farmers
  • Manufacturing and Industrial Facilities
  • Occupational Health
  • Safety
• Keywords:
  • Accident-analysis
  • Accident-potential
  • Accident-prevention
  • Accidents
  • Agricultural-machinery
  • Agricultural-workers
  • Farmers
  • Injuries
  • Injury-prevention
  • Safety-education
  More +
• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Agriculture ; Machine (All) ; Machine - Farming ; Prevention through Design (PtD)
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE96KY071
• 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:
  2 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20026345
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2012-105540
• 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 96KY071, 1997 Jan ; :1-2
• 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-96KY071 ; FACE 96KY07101
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/170211/cdc_170211_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 36.90 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:85a83c425c342b8cf08ab7ee9e9ee49a0240920650c7bca21b2fbbe9d4d026e6e8ed46ff7c1cf417407bd0468ffd16be4b983905358e5a710bde0b0b3aa6e1a9