Face Reports

[keeney]

The CDC (Center for Disease Control) website has all of their FACE - Fatality Assesment Control and Evaluation reports online.

CDC - Face Reports

We can all learn from the mistakes described in these reports.

I found it interesting that a high percentage of the MN ones were simply titled "Farmer Dies After Being Run Over By Tractor He Was Driving", or "Farmer Dies After Tractor He Was Driving Rolled Over on Him".

Also very informative was the high number of "Electrician Dies from Electrocution." reports.

 

[kubota_man]

Thanks for posting the FACE site. I WILL not operate my tractor without the seatbelt from now on. The life you saved might be mine.THANKS

 

[txdon]

I randomly picked one of the farm accident reports and read it - "A local welder had modified the ROPS at the victim's request". Henro are you reading this? /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif The victim died during a rollover when his head was crushed between the ground and the ROPS.

Thanks for the link. It really shows just how quickly things can turn tragic.

 

[RedRocker]

There are local welders then there are local welders.
Good grief, I'm surprised there are any farmers left, grain and manure seem to be big killers as well as heavy equipment. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[Scrounger]

DId anyone else notice that most of the deaths are roll overs, electricity related or manure related. More from manure and roll overs than anything else.

 

[keeney]

If you look at the industrial accidents, there are also a very high proportion of "Forklift tipped over".

Another intersting catagory is "Fell from pallet or load being lifted by forklift".

 

[Farmwithjunk]

My username describes a common problem with small-scale farming. Most of us use older, under-sized equipment to do the job. In some cases, it's in a sad state of disrepair too. Add to that, most part-time farmers, and all full-timers are overworked at certain times of the year. That leads to fatigue. That leads to injuries.

I read through a number of the reported deaths, including one where I knew the old-timer personally. In fact, I passed him on the highway about 20 minutes before he ran off the road, rolling his tractor, killing him. It happens too quick. It happens to men, women, and even kids who spent plenty of time around this sort of life. Let that be a lesson to all of us. For those of us who think we're safe people, so did most of these folks.

In every case I know of, those of us on TBN enjoy our tractors and the work we do with them. Don't take away that enjoyment with a serious injury. BE CAREFUL. I've been to enough funerals to last a lifetime.

 

[jimmysisson]

My dad used to be a workers-compensation plaintiff's lawyer. He used to describe some of his cases at the dinner table. One I remember was of a guy who had a job accident that scarred the inside of his lungs. He had to have oxygen all the time, and the bottles then were bigger (1950s). He came back for a visit to his buddies at the shipyard, and wanted to get up where they were on the scaffolding. He convinced a guy to hoist him up on the forklift about 15' up, when he fell off trying to get onto the staging with his tank. The fall broke his back (which had been fine) and the tank neck, and started a fire. Don't know whether he was able to collect...
People sure will do stuff others shake their heads at.
Jim