Farm Worker Struck-By Back-Hoe in Missouri

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• Personal Author:
  Ray, Thomas D. ; Roberts, Daryl W.
• Corporate Authors:
  Missouri Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (MO FACE) ; Missouri. Department of Health
• Description:
  On March 21, 1997 a 48-year-old male farm worker was run over by a back-hoe. He was apparently preparing to move the back-hoe into a maintenance building on the farm. The victim was standing in front of the right rear tire of the back-hoe when he apparently started it while it was in gear. The back-hoe ran over him, then proceeded across the equipment lot before stopping against a trailer. The victim was a part-time intermittent farm worker. He had worked with the employer for many years and had a good knowledge of most the farm's equipment. The MO FACE investigator concluded that in order to prevent similar occurrences, all employers should: 1. ensure that all back-hoes and heavy equipment be started only when the operator is occupying the operator seat
  
  2. ensure all safety switches are maintained and interlocks are operational
  
  3. provide training to employee's in hazard recognition and avoidance, along with safe work practices.
  
  
• Content Notes:
  Publication Date provided by FACE program
  
  not printed on the report
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Agriculture Farmers Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-potential Accident-prevention Agricultural-industry Agricultural-machinery Agricultural-workers Injuries Injury-prevention OSHA Region 7 Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-practices Tractors Traumatic-injuries Truck-drivers

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE97MO030
• 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:
  7 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20026258
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2007-110252
• 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 97MO030, 1997 Sep ; :1-7
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1997
• 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-512:05e67a397a14e09394db78a7baabff798b6e1fe28c1ec7b6894c48a01dcb3388d37482a39ca6203a6668e7a73e054532fe17a5b8244c42b3bba48870a68e05ea
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/170269/cdc_170269_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 19.23 KB ]