Fatality Narrative: Farm Tractor Operator Falls from Tractor and Run Over

Details

• Corporate Authors:
  Washington (State). Department of Labor and Industries
• Description:
  On May 21, 2009, a tractor operator fell from a tractor while raking hay in a field and was run over by the tractor's wheel, the windrow rake being pulled by the tractor, or both. The 55-year-old victim was working his first day on the job as a temporary hay harvesting employee at a dairy farm. He was an experienced tractor operator. He started raking hay alone at 9am driving a tractor pulling a double windrow rake in a field of mown hay. He was found at 1pm deceased in the field near the tractor. The incident was unobserved. The medical examiner determined that the cause of death was suffocation probably as a result of falling from the tractor and being run over by the tractor wheel and/or the windrow rake. Description provided by NIOSH
• Subjects:
  • Agriculture
  • Farmers
  • Occupational Health
  • Safety
  • Workplace
• Keywords:
  • Agriculture
  • Agricultural workers
  • Agricultural
  • Agricultural machinery
  • Agricultural safety
  • Tractors
  • Rollover protective structures
  • ROPS
  • Safety
  • Safety belts
  More +
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 10 ; Washington
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20051659
• Citation:
  Olympia, WA: Washington State Department of Labor and Industries, 71-93-2010, 2010 Jul; :1
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2010
• Performing Organization:
  Washington State Department of Labor and Industries
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Fatality narrative: farm tractor operator falls from tractor and run over
• End Date:
  20260630
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/228780/cdc_228780_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 145.96 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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