Because access to the scene and inspection of the equipment were not possible in this case, a partial inspection was done. Conclusions cannot be drawn from the evidence collected. A 68-year-old farmer died when he fell from his tractor into the path of an attached disc. The victim had begun discing a tobacco field about 3:00 p.m., minutes after his wife and son left for second-shift work at a factory. After completing one field, he proceeded to a second field to complete the afternoon's work. The second field was across a small gulley. As the victim drove the tractor through the gulley, he fell from the moving tractor and was run over by the disc.
Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Report for Kentucky: Farmer is Run Over by Disc After Falling From Tractor
1995
2 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Public Health & Industrial Medicine , Environmental & Occupational Factors , Agricultural Equipment, Facilities, & Operations , Industrial Safety Engineering , Occupational safety and health , Accident investigations , Fatalities , Farmers , Injuries , Runover accidents , Accidental fall , Tractors , Agricultural machinery , Accident prevention , Saafety equipment , Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation(FACE)