Farm tractor overturns crushing part-time farmer/dentist

Details

• Personal Author:
  Barrett, Charles L. ; Warren, Richard L.
• Corporate Authors:
  Indiana Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (Indiana FACE) ; Indiana. State Department of Health
• Description:
  A 41-year-old male part-time farmer/dentist (the victim) was crushed when the borrowed vintage farm tractor he was operating flipped over while attempting to pull out recently cut sapling stumps out of the ground with a log chain. The vintage farm tractor was not equipped with a Rollover Protection System (ROPS) or seat restraints. The victim had used the borrowed vintage tractor many times before without incident. In this incident the rear hitch was missing and the victim preceded to secured the log chain around the tractor seat causing the tractor to flip end over end onto the victim when the power was applied. The FACE investigator concluded in order to prevent similar occurrences' farmers should: 1. Equip any age tractor with a Rollover Protection System (ROPS) and seat restraints. 2. Only use equipment as intended by the manufacture. Read, understand, and follow manufacture's information manual if one is available. 3. Only use the rear hitch to tow loads.
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Agriculture Farmers Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Agricultural-machinery Agricultural-workers Injuries Injury-prevention OSHA Region 5 Tractors Traumatic-injuries
• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Agriculture
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE95IN039
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Indiana ; OSHA Region 5
• 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:20026072
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2007-107199
• 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 95IN039, 1995 Apr ; :1-6
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1995
• Performing Organization:
  Indiana State Department of Health
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  11 - Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1992/09/30
• End Date:
  1997/09/29
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:f2f46c6747df103b0707060661b0d5c9d5f05b554374d7e644c8b2f4858da6f77eee57aac22118f6df00524e4af091d11adef1291ee3282f948680cc7f448458
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/170333/cdc_170333_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 19.80 KB ]