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Take the time to shut down the engine and prop the thing up with a chain or 4X4.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/prince-edward-island/story/2010/08/04/pe-farmer-killed-584.html
 
Always a sad day when something like that happens, but your subject heading reminded me of a story I was told as a young lad for a safety lesson. A farmer was going to attend a funeral for a friend, but he had a lot of work to do. He decided to wear his new coveralls to the field so he wouldn't have to change before going to the funeral. He had used a nail in place of a cotter pin in the pto drive line. Something went wrong and he got off of the tractor to work on it without shutting it down, because he was in a hurry. The nail caught his new overalls and wound him around the pto shaft. The tractor was still running with what was left of him wrapped around the pto shaft when his family came out to see what was taking him so long. Instead of saving time to make his friends funeral, he made a reservation for his own. This story was told to me as fact. I was probably six or seven years old at the time and obviously it made a lasting impression.
 
CWL: I will have to add one event that was even worse. Several years after high school, a class mate had his young kid wander over to see what the adults were working on and got caught in the PTO. Very bad death of the kid and even worse for the parents to see the dismemberment.. Happened so quick...
Kid just wanted to see what was going on.. ag
 
That's horrible.

If that's actually the baler, there are stops right on the cylinders to prevent the door closing. Anything held in the air by hydraulics scares the heck out of me. I wish it scared everyone the same.

I was looking at a JD 530 baler a while back and the door open lockout seems to just be a hydraulic shutoff valve. Is this right? If so, I don't think I could ever get myself under that door. I've just seen too many hoses blow out.
 
That's a horrible way to go.

Accident investigators look for the "error chain". Because very seldom is there just one mistake or failure that causes an accident.

Why did he leave the engine running? Maybe a bad starter?

Why was the PTO engaged?

According to the article, the victim was pulled into the machine when the baler "malfunctioned", but why was he inside it in the first place? There had to be at least one other problem besides the broken hose.

It could be that poor maintenance caught up with him.
 
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