Eleven-Year-Old Farm-Boy Dies Following Tractor Accident

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• Personal Author:
  Ray, Thomas D.
• Corporate Authors:
  Missouri Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (MO FACE) ; Missouri. Department of Health
• Description:
  On March 19, 1999, an eleven-year-old farm-boy died when the tractor he was operating overturned into a drainage ditch. The boy was returning from a pasture with the tractor and a homemade two-wheeled round-hay-bale trailer attached. He was operating an Allis-Chalmers WD, tricycle-front-end tractor on well-maintained gravel county road. He and his father had just dropped two round hay bales in their farm pasture. The father was driving a pick-up truck and had driven ahead of the son on the county road as they were returning from the pasture. The accident was not witnessed, but apparently the farm-boy lost control of the tractor as it neared a drainage ditch and culvert. The tractor veered off of the left side of the road and overturned into the ditch. The MO FACE investigator recommends that to prevent similar occurrences all farmers and employers should: 1. Provide tractors equipped with rollover protective structures (ROPS) and seat belts for use by all persons trained and certified to operate tractors. 2. Ensure that workers are trained in and are aware of the potential hazards associated with operating farm machinery.
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Age Factors Agriculture Family Farmers Occupational Health Safety Safety Management
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-potential Accident-prevention Age-factors Agricultural-industry Agricultural-machinery Agricultural-workers Families Injuries Injury-prevention OSHA Region 7 Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-monitoring Safety-practices Tractors Traumatic-injuries

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Agriculture ; Youth ; Youth Agriculture
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE99MO022
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Missouri ; OSHA Region 7
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  6 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20026273
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2007-111116
• 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 99MO022, 2005 Sep ; :1-6
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2005
• Performing Organization:
  Missouri Department of Health
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  11 - Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1991/09/30
• End Date:
  2002/03/31
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:c92297e6e75c1b8f97f7b86c0a8a16444e9e528b1d7cd57f916487be56151bff2c354276b0a6fe5e42a8f0d56d9fcd42d0de3b9c4326da68e2f5ea0746850e46
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/170259/cdc_170259_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 33.68 KB ]