Being AG I grew up on narrow front end row crop tractors,
and I knew hundreds of others who did and none died because of the narrow front end,
or a flywheel near their foot, and I don't know of any that died simply because of the steel wheels.
Did a few die because they didn't have a ROPS possibly.
Looking back most actual tractor fatalities were a result of too big of a load,
too steep of a hill, too high of a speed.
Many times too much load, too steep of a hill resulted in too high of a speed.
The narrow front end was only minutely more likely to roll then the old wide fronts.
Much of the time these smaller row crop tractors were being operated by 9-10 year old kids.
And somehow most of us made it too maturity.