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Farmer dies after being pinned under overturned tractor in Wisconsin.

Wisconsin Department of Health & Family Services

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 99WI030, 2000 Jan; :1-3

https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/face/stateface/wi/99wi030.html

20028156

A 92-year-old male farmer (the victim) died after the tractor he was driving overturned and he was pinned under the seat. He had been using the tractor with a front bucket loader to grade the driveway on his property. The victim was backing the tractor into the driveway when the rear wheel went into the ditch and the tractor overturned, pinning him under the tractor seat. The tractor was not equipped with a rollover protection structure (ROPS). His daughter and her husband witnessed the event, but it happened too quickly for their warnings to prevent the overturn. The daughter ran to the house and called 911, while her husband went to a neighbor's farm to get a tractor. The son-in-law returned to the scene within ten minutes, at about the same time as the emergency services vehicles. The EMS used air bags to raise the tractor enough to remove the victim from under the tractor. The ambulance transported him to the local hospital, then he was flown to a regional medical facility where he died two weeks later. To prevent future fatalities of this type, the FACE investigator recommends farm tractor owners and operators should: 1. Avoid using tractors that are not fully equipped with rollover protective structures (ROPS). 2. Evaluate the terrain prior to beginning an operation with a tractor, and mark hidden hazards for visibility.

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

20000126

Field Studies; Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation

Cooperative Agreement

2000

PB2009-102087

A01

FACE-99WI030; Cooperative-Agreement-Number-U60-CCU-507081

NAICS-11

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

WI; WV

Wisconsin Department of Health & Family Services