Accident season?

Two accidents happened this week just a few kilometers from where I work.
On Tuesday a young man 37 yo got his arm caught in the apron chain on a manure spreader. They flew him to a hospital in the capitol and amputated his arm above the elbow. I know this man. Bought a packer arm for my plow from him 3 years ago and his father has hauled silage bales for me.
On Wednesday a little boy visited a dairy farm with his kindergarten and got caught and stuck in the milking carousel as it was turning. He was severely injured but he will survive. The owner says they will stop having visits from schools and kindergartens. I know this farm as I arranged a farm visit and barbeque there last summer with our local Family Farmers Association.
We can’t remind each other often enough: Take care out there.

It's bad to say, but accidents happen on a farm. If it
were truly an accident and the boy was not
endangered by a rogue cow or faulty setup, there
wasn't a way to avoid it - sad situation. In Kansas
we have an agritourism law that protects farmers
from lawsuits a liable when such accidents occur.
I'm sure that farm family will have a tough time
knowing someone was hurt on their farm. That's
why I refuse every time some group wants to "come
see a day on the farm". This isn't an amusement
park. It's where I work and is an OSHA nightmare.

(quoted from post at 19:45:56 05/07/16) That's
why I refuse every time some group wants to "come
see a day on the farm". This isn't an amusement
park. It's where I work and is an OSHA nightmare.

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Same here. It's a catch 22, I would really like to have kids out to the farm to get them familiar with where their food comes from but in the case someone gets hurt I can't afford it. Even if the law is on your side you have to hire a lawyer to argue your case.

My 16 year old daughter rear ended another car today, air bags went off, but no serious injuries.

Of all the ways of getting injured with equipment getting an arm caught in a manure spreader apron chain is one I'd never think of. I'm guessing it was empty and he was making an adjustment?

I've seen a few accidents where the person
was taking cold medicine and it will make
you less alert. I almost got caught in a
pto shaft that way last time I took
medicine like that.
Kids are unpredictable I was hauling hay
for a guy and going out went passed a kid
and as I went by she decided to pick up a
rock. I slammed the brakes so hard I
almost put grandpa off the fender he turned
to the kid chewed her out then turned to me
and said the way some kids are there not
worth working for . These were always nice
kids and it was just a slip.

Accidents do happen on a farm and I farm but getting your arm caught in manure spreader like that is stupidity. I
mean he's 37 years old..a lot of these should not happen .

Cell phone in car?

(quoted from post at 16:45:56 05/07/16) It's bad to say, but accidents happen on a farm. If it
were truly an accident and the boy was not
endangered by a rogue cow or faulty setup, there
wasn't a way to avoid it - sad situation. In Kansas
we have an agritourism law that protects farmers
from lawsuits a liable when such accidents occur.
I'm sure that farm family will have a tough time
knowing someone was hurt on their farm. That's
why I refuse every time some group wants to "come
see a day on the farm". This isn't an amusement
park. It's where I work and is an OSHA nightmare.

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Thing of it is that the workplace used to be just as bad if not worse for accidents. Then they created OSHA. Now for the most part the work place is pretty safe. Think about it. Almost any machinery roll over is either going to fast, operator error or having that equipment some place it shouldn't have been in, in the first place. Now I know that some will claim well I have to be there with a tractor. No, you don't. But because you just have to plant that extra 1/2 acre out of sheer greed..... Same thing with removing a shield and leaving it off just so it won't take so long to fix it next time. How many follow manufacturers instructions to shut off a tractor before working on it or a piece of PTO driven equipment again to save a few seconds?

Now we get into kids getting hurt. You guys claim to be family oriented men. Then say "kids get hurt on farms". Let some 10 year old town kid get hurt driving a car and you'd be the first to yell. Let a 10 year old get hurt driving a tractor and it's OK? 10 year olds and sometimes 15/16/17 year old kids don't always have the best judgment. And most farmers I know with kids out there on equipment unsupervised is again sheer greed. Got that extra free labor so you are going to use it. You put in more livestock, add a few more acres all to make more money cause you have the extra labor. Is a farm kid going to fall off able while climbing and get injured? Sure, but a city kid is going to find something to climb and they are going to fall too.

Nothing wrong with having a kid on a tractor for a ride. Nothing wrong with having that kid with you for hours in a buddy seat that they are not going to fall out of. But when you got that kid on your lap on an open station tractor while doing field work for hours you need to think about that.

The only funny part about this is farmers in general are going to get child services and OSHA involved in this if accident rates don't drop.

Rick

Nope, just in a hurry.

A guy at work had a heavy part on a hoist, and it fell and it broke. He said he had done it that way a hundred times.
That is the way it is folks. It was SAFE to do it that way until it WASN"T. We have ALL been there. Most of us have been lucky enough to learn from our mistakes without serious injury.

SO WHY BE SO JUDGEMENTAL?
SERIOUSLY SDE

(quoted from post at 10:02:51 05/08/16) A guy at work had a heavy part on a hoist, and it fell and it broke. He said he had done it that way a hundred times.
That is the way it is folks. It was SAFE to do it that way until it WASN"T. We have ALL been there. Most of us have been lucky enough to learn from our mistakes without serious injury.

SO WHY BE SO JUDGEMENTAL?
SERIOUSLY SDE

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That's right!! Even with all the safety devices they put on cars there are still fatalities. It is better than it used to be and the safety shields should always be in place but there are just sometimes that in order to repair or adjust something the shields needs to be off in order to see what's going on.
There are some people who could be dumped in a load of razor blades and not get a scratch and some who can get hurt with a cotton ball. The best safety device is between our ears and there are too many that are under equipped in that area.

(quoted from post at 10:02:51 05/08/16) A guy at work had a heavy part on a hoist, and it fell and it broke. He said he had done it that way a hundred times.
That is the way it is folks. It was SAFE to do it that way until it WASN"T. We have ALL been there. Most of us have been lucky enough to learn from our mistakes without serious injury.

SO WHY BE SO JUDGEMENTAL?
SERIOUSLY SDE

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You you mean is guy with the hoist had been taking a short cut work around and it eventually caught up with him .

Just buried My nieces husbands cousin 22. working in a 16ft hole just dug by an excavator with out a trench box. Pure stupidity with the rain we have had. Now his three
kids and wife have no body. the company offered them 22,000 for their loss. said if they are sued they will just declare bankrupt.