During the fall of 2002, a 22-year-old farmer was killed while cutting corn silage on his farm. He was working with his brother, chopping silage for their dairy operation. The brother was driving a tractor, pulling the corn chopper and silage wagon. After the wagon was full, they stopped at the edge of the field and the victim disconnected the wagon, planning to hook up an empty wagon nearby. The wagon was on a slight slope and it slowly began to creep forward after disconnecting. The victim first jumped on the tongue, expecting it to dig into the ground and stop the wagon, but it continued to move. He then picked up the tongue, trying to turn the wagon more uphill to stop it from rolling. At this point, he was walking/running backwards in tall grass. His brother yelled to him to get out of the way, but he apparently slipped and his pant leg was caught by the wagons running gear. The silage wagon continued to roll several hundred feet downhill, dragging the victim along. The brother used a cell phone to call 911, and another relative arrived and began cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). The victim had received multiple blunt force injuries, and was declared dead when he arrived at the hospital.
Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Report for Iowa: Young Farmer Crushed Under Rolling Silage Wagon
2004
5 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Medicine & Biology , Public Health & Industrial Medicine , Agricultural Equipment, Facilities, & Operations , Industrial Safety Engineering , Accident investigations , Occupational safety and health , Farmer , Fatality , Chopping silage , Corn silage , Rolling silage wagon , Blunt force injuries , Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) report (Iowa)