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11/12/11, 09:19 AM
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Safety In Agriculture
I was thinking after reading the thread on the 8n and bushhogging on a hill. So I looked up the data for the US in 2010.
It is not good, they have a table to show the number of fatalities per 100,000 workers.
For manager/ profesionals the average rate is 1.7, farmers and Ranchers 41.4
It is safer to work in a mine than on a cropping farm. 31.8 vs 19.8
Being in the police or sherifs dept is 18.
We all need to think about what we do, and be safe.
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11/12/11, 09:49 AM
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Murphy was an optimist ;)
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Yeppers, when an office worker gets sloppy and careless with their work, they get fired. When a farmer or rancher gets sloppy, body parts come up missing.... sometimes too many parts at once. If yer working with machinery.... pay attention to what you are doing, and what everyone else is doing.
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11/12/11, 10:08 AM
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Been that way since there was a farm. Shuda been there when tractors and heavy harvesting equipment were manned by 12 yr olds.  The PTO is where most problems are encurred these days. When a machine has a govenor on it, that extra load just adds more fuel fo the problem. Mike
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11/12/11, 10:14 AM
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In Remembrance
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Decades ago when I farmed full time I invested in a disability insurance policy. I learned than how dangerous farming is as the premium was somewhat based on occupation.
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11/12/11, 10:24 AM
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So True! Safety first, foremost, and always. I never really thought about what farmers have to use to make a living, until I got up close to some of the machinery. Ever look at the business end of a cotton picker? Looks like a real bad way to go. So, hope everyone gets everything they need to, done. And they get to keep all their body parts and lives doing it!
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11/12/11, 10:36 AM
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Too many fat quarters...
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The last time I read the stats, farming and ranching were only behind logging and deep sea fishing for dangerous occupations...
Not exactly the pastoral view most folks have.
Just this spring, DH helped pull the body of a co-worker out of a grain bin. 
Not only is equipment etc. dangerous, but usually, things happen SO fast.
Worse, there are often safety precautions that could be taken, but folks in this business tend to be very independent and don't need those fools from OSHA, the EPA, and whoever else, telling them how to operate their place...
Last edited by ErinP; 11/12/11 at 10:45 AM.
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11/12/11, 02:15 PM
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Your message is very true, be safe. Tho, the sarcastic person in me wants to say;
If we were all nice safe managers, what would we eat or wear? Someone has to do the actual work! Just gonna be that way.
Fella was killed a few miles from me 2 days ago. Driving a tractor on the road, truck hit him & he flew on the road, 'nother truck ran him over. That will be listed as a farm accident, tho it would not appear to be on-farm related, and perhaps not his lack of attention - so kinda skews the statistics perhaps. Either way, your message is a good one, pay attention, stay safe.
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11/12/11, 02:21 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Chief Cook
So True! Safety first, foremost, and always. I never really thought about what farmers have to use to make a living, until I got up close to some of the machinery. Ever look at the business end of a cotton picker? Looks like a real bad way to go. So, hope everyone gets everything they need to, done. And they get to keep all their body parts and lives doing it!
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Yes it is. I was one that got a friend out of a cotton picker. It took all morning and a DR to amputate his arm before we could get him free. Think about a DR in the field and me holding him up enough to amputate the arm. But we saved him from death.
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11/12/11, 03:35 PM
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Narrow front tractors should never be on a hill.
Operators should not worry about their cap coming off or being snagged by a tree limb.
Losing control of a tractor coming down a hill headed for a barn
can be deadly. In this case it wasn't only by the grace of God.
The front wheels were sheared of the tractor when it hit the
barn foundation and the tractor came to a stop . If it had kept going the metal roof
would have cut his head off.
Farming is dangerous game, just one false step, a moment of looking away, haste,
impatience, can all lead to death, dismemberment, lost of equipment,etc.
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11/12/11, 06:14 PM
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We had a neighbor in his early 40s spent all of spring planting in the ICU this year when he tried to stop a cow for his dad. 4 weeks in the hospital, finally got cleared to drive tractor but not to do anything else in August.
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11/12/11, 06:24 PM
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I know equipment can be dangerous, but over the years I've heard of more people killed by the cattle than anything else. Even sweet ol' bessie, who you've milked for 3 years can pin you to a wall and crush you. That's how a neighbor died.
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11/15/11, 08:07 AM
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Not just be safe but SLOW DOWN! We farm and during the season DH is always in a rush.. rush to plant, rush to harvest, always trying to beat the weather. Also, farmers need to use common sense. Keep your danged limbs away from augers! Don't let those huge electric cords lay across puddles just because you have to get the grain in the bins in a rush.. I could write a book!
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11/16/11, 05:31 PM
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"Slick"
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My Cousin used to dairy, one his help was found in the milk barn dead, apparently crushed by the cows.
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11/16/11, 07:21 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by paintlady
Not just be safe but SLOW DOWN! We farm and during the season DH is always in a rush.. rush to plant, rush to harvest, always trying to beat the weather. Also, farmers need to use common sense. Keep your danged limbs away from augers! Don't let those huge electric cords lay across puddles just because you have to get the grain in the bins in a rush.. I could write a book!
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Being in a rush is the name of the game in farming. Only a few days to get the hay made or the corn picked or the crop planted.
I remember as a small boy, seeing lots of farmers with an arm missing, or a leg. The corn pickers had knobbed rollers that would take in the whole corn stalk and were spaced to pop off the ear of corn. They often got plugged. Those rollers would grab a hand or a boot and not let go, just kept rolling, peeling whatever was in it.
A few years back a farm lost three generations of men in an empty manure storage tank. Grandpa went in to check something, methane killed him, grandson went in to find Grandpa. Dad went looking for both of them.
Farming requires lots of different equipment, lots of skils in using it and lots more skill in maintaining it. Put rain in tomorrow's forcast and someone is bound to get careless.
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