Farm Worker Dies After Tractor Overturns

doi:10.26616/NIOSHSFACE99WI038

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Farm Worker Dies After Tractor Overturns

2000/02/18
By Wisconsin Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (Wisconsin FACE) ...
Series: Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)

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Wisconsin Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (Wisconsin FACE) ; Wisconsin. Division of Public Health. Bureau of Occupational Health

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Description:

An 18-year-old male farm worker (the victim) died after the tractor he was driving overturned and he received crushing injuries from being tossed in the cab. He had been using the tractor attached to a hay rake while raking hay in a field, and was making the last turn in a 12-acre field. The tractor overturned while he was turning around on a hillside with approximately 20 grade. The tractor was equipped with a rollover protection structure (ROPS) and seatbelt, but apparently the victim was not using the seatbelt at the time of the incident. The farm owner discovered the injured victim in the cab of the overturned tractor when he went to the field to deliver sandwiches for an afternoon break. The farm owner went to a nearby house to call for emergency services, which arrived within five minutes. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene by the medical examiner. To prevent future fatalities of this type, the FACE investigator recommends farm tractor owners and operators should: 1. Always use an operator restraint system while operating a tractor equipped with rollover protective structures. 2. Evaluate the terrain prior to beginning an operation with a tractor, and plan safe strategies for addressing the hazards. In addition, farmers and other employers with workers assigned to work in isolated situations should: 3. Provide personal communication devices to workers assigned to remote worksites.
Content Notes:

Publication Date provided by FACE program; not printed on the report.
Subjects:

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Accidents, Occupational Occupational Health Safety
Keywords:

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Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Accidents Agricultural-industry Agricultural-machinery Agricultural-processes Agricultural-workers Agriculture Equipment-operators Equipment-reliability Farmers Injuries Injury-prevention NIOSH Region-5 Protective-measures Safety-belts Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-monitoring Tractors Traumatic-injuries Work-analysis Work-areas Work-operations Work-performance Work-practices
FACE - NIOSH and State:

All (0000) ; Agriculture (0001) ; Machine (All) (0011) ; Machine Farming (0013) ; Youth (0017) ; ... More +

All (0000) ; Agriculture (0001) ; Machine (All) (0011) ; Machine Farming (0013) ; Youth (0017) ; Youth Agriculture (0018) Less -
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Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
Subseries:

State
DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE99WI038
Publisher:

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Document Type:

Text
Funding:

Cooperative Agreement
Genre:

Field Study
Place as Subject:

Wisconsin
CIO:

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
Topic:

Workplace Safety & Health
Location:

North America
Pages in Document:

1-4
NIOSHTIC Number:

20028158
NTIS Accession Number:

PB2009-102089
Citation:

Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, FACE 99WI038, 2000 Feb; :1-4
Federal Fiscal Year:

2000
Performing Organization:

Wisconsin Department of Health & Family Services
Peer Reviewed:

False
NAICS and SIC Codes:

11 - Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting - (NAICS 2022)
Start Date:

1991/09/30
Source Full Name:

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
End Date:

2006/08/31
Resource Number:

FACE-99WI038
Collection(s):

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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