A 67-year-old farmhand driving an older tractor was distracted by approaching traffic while turning into a farm lane and over-steered slightly causing the tractor to enter a ditch and roll over. The victim was on the right shoulder of the highway, preparing to turn left into the farm lane. After he began his turn a car immediately appeared over a hill to the front and right of the tractor. This distraction caused the tractor operator to hurry across the highway and misjudge the entry into the farm lane. The narrow-front tractor drove too far to the left of the farm lane, and rolled in the steep ditch, killing the operator instantly. The victim was transporting a large bale of hay with the tractor using rear mounted hay hooks. This extra weight on the rear of the tractor, combined with the slope of the road, may have made the tractor light on the front end and difficult to steer accurately. The tractor had no ROPS and the man was crushed underneath the tractor.


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    Title :

    Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Report for Iowa: Tractor Avoids Oncoming Car But Rolls in a Ditch Killing the Operator


    Publication date :

    1996


    Size :

    5 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English