Predicting the performance of cost-effective rollover protective structure designs

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• Personal Author:
  Ayers PD ; Harris JR ; McKenzie EA Jr. ; Winn GL
• Description:
  Agricultural tractor overturns kill more than 100 workers each year in the United States. Rollover protective structures (ROPS) can prevent most of these deaths but can be expensive in retrofit applications. Cost-effective ROPS (CROPS) have been designed and built at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health but performance must be evaluated. This study: (1) evaluated CROPS performance, (2) developed a simulation model for probabilistic CROPS evaluation, and (3) evaluated exemplar prototype CROPS performance via simulation of testing requirements. The CROPS prototype evaluated in this study was a Ford-3000 CROPS prototype design. Simulations based on ROPS performance standard SAE J2194 (Society of Automotive Engineers) identified scenarios where the Ford-3000 CROPS might fail. No failure scenarios were identified during simulation of ROPS performance testing to Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) test procedures and performance requirements. Despite passing experimental SAE J2194 testing, computer simulations found scenarios where the Ford-3000 CROPS prototype design might fail. Re-design of the Ford-3000 concept is necessary before field implementation. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Farmers Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Safety Software
• Keywords:
  Agricultural-machinery Author Keywords: Tractor Computer-models Equipment-design Equipment-reliability Failure-analysis Finite Element Analysis Injury-prevention Machine-operation Performance-capability ROPS Simulation-methods Testing-equipment Tractor Overturn Tractor Rollovers Tractors

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• ISSN:
  0925-7535
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant ; Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 4 ; Tennessee ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  49
• Issue:
  8
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20038905
• Citation:
  Saf Sci 2011 Oct; 49(8-9):1252-1261
• Contact Point Address:
  J.R. Harris, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 1095 Willowdale Road, MS G800, Morgantown, WV 26505, USA
• Email:
  JHarris@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2012
• NORA Priority Area:
  Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
• Performing Organization:
  West Virginia University
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Safety Science
• End Date:
  20250630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7c22dcf155bf129549532044a1225e44af52745c91085229b4cfd20e5f66e1774435a7844d81a3b45ead1ee4f0f5480f88007eef37db68fa0b23f38ff2bacea3
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/192436/cdc_192436_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.09 MB ]