Safety Tips

[OverlyRun]

Re: Safety Tips- Most Viewed Post?

At 7500+ views, John Miller's post must be one the most widely read on TBN, and John, thank you for keeping us always thinking about safety. (or are some just interested in rubbernecking on close calls that got too close?)

Are others like me though? When I first got the tractor I read the safety posts every time I logged on. Now it's only an occasional look. I hope that I am every bit as alert when I am using the tractor, and in any event not sure that reading posts translates into safe operation. But a few pictures or a story are good complacency insurance!

Chas

PS I scored 6 out of 7. Figured #1 must be a trick question.

 

[JohnMiller3]

Re: Safety Tips-Wear your Seat Belt or RIP...

May all these souls Rest In Peace…

Tractor overturn on steep ravine

Climbing onto end loader, he either fell on the lever or it malfunctioned, crushed between hydraulic arm and front tire of end loader

Tractor rollover while clearing farm land

Backed up too close to steep embankment, tractor flipped over backwards

Tractor over turn on embankment, killed instantly

Have a ROPS?... Then wear your seat belt… Don’t die for nothing…
Farm Deaths…

Wear your seat belt or RIP

 

[JohnMiller3]

Re: Safety Tips-Death on a Tractor...

Death on a Tractor…

“Tractor rollover accidents are the largest cause of tractor related deaths."

"There is no scientific excuse for the persistence of this problem. This is something we know how to prevent." The key to surviving tractor rollover accidents is using ROPS with seat belts.”

“Several studies have been performed to determine the effectiveness of rollover protective structures. A joint study by the University of Iowa and Iowa State University found that tractor operators protected by ROPS survive 95% of the time in rollover accidents. This same study also found that operators on tractors without ROPS and seatbelts survive rollover accidents only 25% of the time.”

” The statistics show that tractor rollover accidents frequently occur, and that without a rollover protective structure, chances are the operator will not survive a rollover. If the tractor is equipped with a ROPS and the operator is using a seatbelt, the chances are that the operator will walk away from a rollover accident.”

Tractor Rollovers & Brief History of ROPS…

“The National Safety Council (NSC) has estimated that about 200 deaths result from agricultural tractor overturns each year (NSC, 1997). Murphy and Yoder (1998) estimated that these deaths account for more than one-third of all production agriculture-related fatalities in the United States. A ROPS in combination with a seatbelt can prevent nearly all tractor overturn-related fatalities and serious injuries (CDC, 1993). ROPS are sturdy frames attached to tractors or built into tractor cabs. They protect the operator from being crushed if the tractor overturns. Seatbelts are used in combination with the ROPS to keep the operator within a protective “zone.””

“Human beings are not very good at assessing risk. This includes farmers who often worry most about the wrong danger. This puts them at risk in their work and makes it less likely they will avoid the most common farm accidents.

A study in Iowa indicated that farmers thought the most hazardous part of their work was handling insecticides and they perceived tractors as the least hazardous. Yet for those reporting having had an accident, farm machinery was the number one item involved, with tractors being fourth,. No acute accidents involving insecticides were reported. “

No one deliberately tries to roll his tractor over, yet approximately half of all deaths by tractor each year are the result of overturns. ...

“The biggest killers are tractors with more than half the deaths the result of tractor accidents, according to OSHA. Over half of those, 57 percent, are the result of rollovers, another 9 percent are the result of people either falling off the tractor and/or getting run over”

“Tractors used in farm work continue to dominate the list of agricultural related deaths. Every tractor in this five year-review of injuries resulting in death were without a ROPS(Roll Over Protective System).

The average half life of a tractor is estimated to be 16 to 19 years. This means that we still have tractors being used on the farm, usually in a utility function, job, that are 30 or 40 years old.”

Do you have a seat belt on your tractor?... Please use it...

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF TRACTOR SAFETY

 

[Egon]

Re: Safety Tips-Death on a Tractor...

John:

No acute accidents involving insecticides were reported. ?

The dangers of these and other chemicals including dust usually appear years later. The farmers may know of what they talk.

I fully agree on ROPS and seat belts. My idea of a ROPS is a cage for full protection like is seen on large yellow construction equipment. The single bar type will work well as long as the tractor is not operating in trees or areas where there are many large rocks.

Please note: My first car did not come with seatbelts. I had some installed immediately. This was long before seat belts were mandatory on vehicles.

Egon

 

[Soundguy]

Re: Safety Tips-Death on a Tractor...

Yep.. given the choice of ROPS or FOPS ( falling objects protective structure.. I prefer FOPS. If I get another tractor, I want it bigger than my 1920.. and am looking for one with FOPS... I think it would also be safer in those areas where people are afraid of ROPS and trees.. I.e. being crushed after sliding into a tree in a side roll... FOPS would be awesome there..

Soundguy

 

[garchib]

Re: Safety Tips-Death on a Tractor...

<font color="blue"> John Miller wrote: "
Why do people still insist on letting their precious children ride on their lap or the fender of a tractor…?

In your car, you wouldn’t think of driving down the freeway @ 75 mph with a child sitting in your lap, helping you steer… they’d arrest you, put you in jail, and throw away the key…

So why do it with a more dangerous vehicle like a riding lawn mower or compact tractor…?

Please don’t take your children for a tractor ride…
Folks… it’s not fun… it’s just plain stupid and asinine…"</font>

<font color="black"> ....while I agree with you that it is "asinine" to be
bush hogging with a kid on your fender, what is wrong with a slow
ride through your flat field with your son buckled in with you on your lap !? I am not trying to be confrontational, as this thread is very informative, but I think we need to be careful of broad generalizations. While I appreciate the fact that people should try to avoid risks
to their children, judgement is the key in this equation. One thing
our society has too much of is "watch-dogs" /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

BTW, about a couple of years ago, one of my sons needed his diaper
changed right as we were leaving a restaurant. Rather than go back in,
we decided to use the inside of car trunk, which is very clean, to set him down and change his diaper. While we are doing this, a lady walks
up to us and says "you are not going to put that baby in the trunk are you !?" Thank goodness for knuckleheads like her in our society, at least they keep us smiling /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Soundguy]

Re: Safety Tips-Death on a Tractor...

I can remember back when I was about 4 years old, standing on the left running board of my pepaw's ( we called grandad pepaw then.. ) old ford 2000.. holding on to the fender, his hand on my belt.. we would ride down the road from there house to his garden a couple miles away, and then he would disc or till, or hog for a few hours while I ran around and chased frogs and looked for rocks and bugs.. etc...

I guess things have just changed now...

Soundguy

 

[fivestring]

Re: Safety Tips-Death on a Tractor...

I don't think things have changed as much as people have. To keep up with the Joneses, people don't think things thru anymore. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif Things get done half-[censored]. Common sense needs a comeback. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif You can still ride the tractor like you did, but today, the parent or grandparent has too many things on their mind, so they don't hold on to the child, or use L2 range, etc. Accidents happened then, too; maybe more so as more folks farmed and used tractors. They just weren't documented/sensationalized like they are nowadays. Common sense. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif If I worried about everything that could go wrong, I wouldn't drive a car, fly, ski, cut grass, etc. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif Just plain old common sense.
my .02 on that. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

 

[garchib]

Re: Safety Tips-Death on a Tractor...

Amen to that Gary /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[LBrown59]

Re: Safety Tips-Front End Loader

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( There was a very short story with no details in the newspaper this past week that a City of Dallas employee killed himself when he drove a forklift down the ramp into the underground parking at the City Hall and turned it over at the bottom of the ramp. No details about whether he had a load, how high he was carrying it, whether he just got to going too fast down the ramp, turned too quick, or what.

<br><br>Bird )</font>


Bird
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My brother worked with a guy at Kardex that was unloading a semi with a fork lift
for some reason the truck driver drove away from the loading dock while the guy on the fork lift was gone to unload.
The guy was returning to get the next load off the truck and had the fork lift barreling along almost wide open and went air borne right off the loading dock landing on all 4 wheels in the parking lot below.
Fornatertly he was't hurt but it certainly shook him up.
Just the other night my brother and I were talking about some of the close calls
my brother had operating fork lifts for Kardex over the years.

B D B
May be old but i's certainly relevant.