Farmer Dies After Fall with Tractor from a Low Water Bridge in Missouri

Details

• Personal Author:
  Hooper, Terry L. ; Ray, Thomas D. ; Roberts, Daryl W.
• Corporate Authors:
  Missouri Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (MO FACE) ; Missouri. Department of Health
• Description:
  A 63-year-old rural farmer died following a tractor incident. The victim was driving tractor across a narrow bridge when he lost control and the tractor and victim fell to the creek bottom. The MO FACE Investigator concluded that in order to prevent future similar occurrences, employers should: 1. Routinely identify potential hazards in the area where they work and implement appropriate control measures.
• 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 Injuries Injury-prevention OSHA Region 7 Safety-education Tractors Traumatic-injuries
• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Agriculture ; Falls
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE92MO006
• 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:
  3 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20026213
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2007-109886
• 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 92MO006, 1992 Dec ; :1-3
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1993
• 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-512:4b626e44170512fc3bac96b7f79501f68e5afaf48343916be8e8d4573d11e197bcae8b37a0783e8356ed4ef2d34e839136eecc3cd2d626b58fa134037c868df0
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/170300/cdc_170300_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 11.99 KB ]