Knowledge Is Not Enough

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• Personal Author:
  Cole, Henry P.
• Description:
  A farmer owns four tractors, all without Rollover Protective Structures (ROPS). He and his wife have worked their hilly, 600-acre farm for 25 years without an overturn. He knows three people in his region who died in tractor overturns and four others who survived overturns on tractors without ROPS, one who never fully recovered from his injuries. He has seen many stories and photographs in newspapers and farm magazines about fatal tractor overturns. Extension agents and equipment dealers have encouraged him to put ROPS on his tractors to protect himself and his family. He has the money to do so, but says, "Until I get a bigger and newer tractor, I'm not going to worry about getting a ROPS. And when I get a newer tractor it won't be for the ROPS!" How can the farmer's statement be explained? [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Agriculture Education Family Farmers Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Safety Management Staff Development

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• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Accident-rates Agricultural-industry Agricultural-machinery Agricultural-workers Educational-resource-centers Families Injuries Injury-prevention Risk-analysis Risk-factors Safety-climate Safety-education Safety-measures Safety-monitoring Safety-personnel Safety-practices Tractors Training

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• ISSN:
  1074-7583
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• 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:
  245-247
• Volume:
  6
• Issue:
  4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20034807
• Citation:
  J Agric Saf Health 2000 Nov; 6(4):245-247
• Contact Point Address:
  University of Kentucky, Lexington
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2001
• Performing Organization:
  University of Kentucky
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20010930
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Agricultural Safety and Health
• End Date:
  20270929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:d9b4f9a957414242102fe7e48f57496be08cdfc8bfe1a3213abc1b766903451e9b6f66809f78fd578cc1e803b8f4412bd0608ec9ac0b549bf49634ab68da7330
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/186871/cdc_186871_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 244.81 KB ]