Accident

Alont · Jan 19, 2012

Hi All

what atragic accident, could have been prevented

maybe-take care

Alont

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-16637133
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ericlb · Jan 19, 2012

feel bad for his family, this could have been easily prevented, rule number 1, shut down engine before leaving cab,

Ultradog MN · Jan 19, 2012

It's always good to be reminded of proper safety practices.
But your link does fortify my theory that farm accidents do seem to get a lot more press than other types do.
First of all this apparantly happened in 2008 and we're still reading about it.
And I know it happened in Scotland but.
According to the NTSB in the year 2008 there were 39800 deaths in the US due to traffic accidents.
And according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2008 there were 672 fatalities due to Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting.
To paraphrase the words of one of the great 20th century dictators;
"ten million lives lost in a war is but a statistic. One child that you love dies is a great tragedy."
Again, lets use our wits and be safe around our equipment. But let's also not make a mountain out of a molehill.

Ky. Hauler · Jan 19, 2012

Right you are. A couple farmers here in Ky. have been killed the last few years by getting under a combine header and messing with the header height. I always put the transporter bar down or stacked 6x6 under the header if I had to adjust it.
One man got rolled up in a round baler. He had stolen it the previous year. Karma, I guess.

Alont · Jan 19, 2012

Just goes to show how long it takes there from the accident to the inquiry

Alont

GeneMO · Jan 19, 2012

I noticed the 2008 date as well. What I read into it was that they were just now getting around to finalize all the legal hassle. I would bet that the family had been trying to sue the tractor manufacturer, the loader manufacturer, the company that made the hydraulic cylinders and the hoses and maybe even the folks that bred the stock dog.

They just not got around to fighting it out and proved somehow nothing was wrong with the equimpent, but the dog did it.

Least that is who we blame it on when we smell a horrid stench in the living room.

The tractor manufacturer if probably off the hook for the liability now.

Hope the puppy has a good lawyer.

Gene

pete 23 · Jan 20, 2012

We had a local farmer run over by a combine. He somehow survived with serious injuries. He was working in the area of the hydrostatic drive controls checking on a leak. One thing I see all the time is people leaving their combines with hydrostatic drive transmissions in gear and running while working around them. They are totally unsafe unless you put manual transmission in neutral. That hydro valve mechanism can malfunction and away you go. The tractors are even worse as they have no so called fail safe valve. A speck of crud hits that orfice in the Speed Ratio cam and away it goes. IH had a few tractors take off unintended when being unloaded from transport and were soon to put warning tags on those to make sure tractor range transmission was in neutral when starting tractor.

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