CHILDHOOD AGRICULTURAL INJURY PREVENTION INITIATIVE

Childhood Agricultural Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Investigation Reports
The following tables contain links to investigation reports of fatal injuries to youth in agricultural settings. The first table contains a list of cases investigated by NIOSH; the second table contains a list of cases investigated by state investigators in State-FACE programs.
NIOSH FACE Investigations of Fatal Injuries to Youth in Agricultural Settings
Report Number | Title |
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89-46 | A 15-year-old Grandson Died When He Entered A Manure Waste Pit With An Oxygen-deficient Atmosphere |
98-15 | 9-Year-Old Child Helping With Blueberry Harvest Dies After Being Run Over by Cargo Truck on Field Road |
2000-06 | A 16-year-old Male Farmworker Died In A Cotton Packing Machine After Being covered With A Load of Cotton – Georgia |
2000-18 | A 15-year-old Male Farm Worker Died After the Tractor He Was Operating Overturned Into A Manure Pit – Pennsylvania |
2002-10 | Youth Farm Worker Dies After Falling Into Operating Feed Grinder/Mixer – Ohio |
State-FACE Investigations of Fatal Injuries to Youth In Agricultural Settings
Report Number | State | Title |
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95IA009 | IA | A 12 year old boy working part-time for a farmer was killed when he lost control and overturned a tractor in a 12 foot deep roadside ditch. |
99IA003 | IA | Youth farm worker is killed when he becomes entangled in PTO driveline of an old grinder-mixer. |
03IA020 | IA | A 14- year-old boy died while helping his grandfather clear farmland of fence posts. |
04IA017 | IA | A 12-year-old boy was killed while helping a farmer, his uncle, hitch a hay wagon to a truck. |
04IA019 | IA | An eight-year-old farm boy was killed while helping his father chop hay for silage on their dairy farm. |
01KY062 | KY | A 16-year-old female was killed after the tractor on which she was riding as a passenger overturned. |
03MI052 | MI | A 13-year-old farm youth was killed when he became entangled in an unguarded rotating power take-off (PTO) shaft. |
04MI176 | MI | 6-Year-Old Youth Dies When He Was Run Over by a Skid-Steer Loader Driven by His 9-Year-Old Brother |
94MN030 | MN | Farm Youth Dies After Being Crushed by a “Run Away” Chopper Wagon |
94MN039 | MN | As the 16 year old victim drove down the highway, the right wheels of the tractor left the road surface. |
94MN041 | MN | The 10 year old victim was driving the tractor on a public highway, pulling a baler and a hayrack loaded with bales of hay. |
95MN045 | MN | A 13-year-old male farm youth (victim) died of injuries sustained after he was engulfed in corn inside a steel grain bin. |
95MN046 | MN | Farmer Youth Dies After Being Struck By A Loader Bucket |
97MN038 | MN | A 13-year-old farm youth (victim) died of injuries sustained when he was run over by a grass seeder. |
00MN029 | MN | Farm Youth Dies After Falling From and Being Run Over By Tractor in Minnesota. |
03MN021 | MN | A 12-year-old female died from injuries sustained when the tractor she was operating overturned. |
05MN010 | MN | Farm Youth Dies After Becoming Entangled In the Unloading Beaters of a Forage Wagon |
05MN036 | MN | Farm Youth Dies After Becoming Entangled In the Unloading Beaters of a Forage Wagon |
99MO022 | MO | An eleven-year-old farm-boy died when the tractor he was operating overturned into a drainage ditch. |
98NE029 | NE | A 18-year-old physical plant helper at a community college was killed when the tractor he was operating overturned in a ditch and landed on top of him. |
99NE028 | NE | A 15 year old youth had gone in to scoop corn away from the front lower door of the grain bin so a sweep auger could be installed. |
05NY001 | NY | An 18-year-old farm worker was fatally injured when he became entangled in a silage defacer. |
98OK025 | OK | A 17-year-old male died when he became trapped in a hay baler that caught fire. |
00OK045 | OK | A 17-year old on a hay hauling crew died from injuries received when he fell from a moving hay truck and was apparently run over by the vehicle’s tire. |
03WA038 | WA | Two Teen Workers Asphyxiate in an Agricultural Silo |
99WA056 | WA | A 16-year-old farm worker (the victim) died of injuries when the tractor he was driving overturned and crushed him. |
99WI038 | WI | 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. |
00WI025 | WI | A 16-year-old male farm worker (the victim) died when a horse-drawn sled loaded with manure overturned on him. |
02WI058 | WI | An 11 year-old youth died when he was pinned under the tractor he was driving. |
92WY013 | WY | A 17 year old male ranch helper was struck by lightning while moving sheep between camps in a hilly area near the border of the state. |
Page last reviewed: October 5, 2020
Content source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health