Part-Time Farmer Dies After Pick-up Truck Overturns

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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 52-year-old part-time farmer was killed when a pick-up truck overturned and crushed him. The victim, along with a neighbor (the witness), were loading the neighbor's tractor on a flatbed trailer to transport it to the victim's tobacco field for plowing. The trailer, attached to the pick-up truck, was parked on a gradual downward slope in preparation for tractor loading. The victim was standing on the front of the trailer while the tractor was being driven on to the trailer by the witness. Before the tractor was completely on the trailer, the truck and trailer began to roll down the slope. When the victim saw what was happening, he jumped from the trailer and ran toward the driver side door in an attempt to stop the truck. He opened the door of the moving truck and tried to reach the break. The right front wheel of the truck rolled up a hill bordering the road causing the truck to overturn and crushing the victim. The victim died from traumatic suffocation. The Kentucky FACE investigator concluded that, in order to prevent similar occurrences, farmers and equipment operators should: 1. Use tail end support jacks to stabilize trailers during loading and unloading operations
  
  2. Use chocks to prevent vehicle movement
  
  3. Trailers should be equipped with adjustable height support posts
  
  4. Evaluate the terrain prior to beginning a procedure.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Agriculture Automobiles Farmers Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident Analysis Accident Potential Accident Prevention Agricultural Machinery Agricultural Workers Injury Prevention Motor Vehicles OSHA Region 4 Safety Education Safety Practices Traumatic Injuries

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Agriculture ; Motor Vehicles ; Prevention through Design (PtD)
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE94KY045
• 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:20026284
• 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 94KY045, 1994 Aug ; :1-3
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1994
• 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-512:832f90ce5eceaea4ca3f17dc7bbc72642a8386c4943188eca11ee0ede65e2f30ba381960e4e0e3bd11a76bed0c34d1ad10aac621c04b3cebfe695297becb59b8
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/170251/cdc_170251_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 103.37 KB ]