Posted by hillbillyOH on September 16, 2007 at 05:56:12 from (67.142.130.22):
MADISON TWP., Butler County — James Cockerham credits his survival to God and a pocket knife.
The 83-year-old Madison Twp. man, pinned underneath a tractor for four hours Monday, dug out with a knife he keeps in his pocket.
Cockerham was trying to remove a post from the back of his 4-acre yard when the tractor flipped 180 degrees, landing on top of him.
"I was laying right under that seat and that seat had me right here," he said Tuesday, indicating a spot right below his rib cage. "I said, 'Lord don't let me die under this tractor.' If I had been a big man with a big chest, that seat would have crushed me to death."
Before he could dig, he had to labor for more than an hour to free his right leg, trapped above a wheel axle.
Cockerham spent the next two-and-a-half hours digging — an idea that came to him after remembering how trapped raccoons would try to dig themselves free.
Once free, he put on his clothes, which he'd removed to aid his escape. He walked about 150 yards to his home, called his daughter, then 911. He suffered arm bruises and cuts to his chest and back.
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This happened right up the road from me. The tractor was an 8N, and the old man was using it to pull wooden posts when it flipped.
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