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Another riding-in-bucket fatality

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rossow (mn)

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A 15-year-old boy was killed on the Minnesota Iron Range when he was run over by a skid steer as he helped move a tree on Friday. The St. Louis County Sheriff's Office says Alaric Lamke died in the accident at 6:30 p.m. in Clinton Township, south of Iron Mountain. He was standing in the bucket of a Bobcat T300 with his father while it was being driven by another man. As they were in the process of moving a tree across the property, Lamke fell off the tractor and went under the machine.
 
sad deal I have never allowed that to happen while I was running equipment,, to me 100% on the operator as we are in charge of the machine at all times,, and those around us,, very sorry for the familys loss none the less,,
 
That's too bad, the driver must of been going too fast and not paying attention. Just yesterday I noticed my neighbor out mowing the lawn on his lawn tractor, with a child in his lap! How many times do we hear of children being badly hurt because of this?
 


Yes, it is like everyone has to have their own personal bad experience before they will take cautions seriously. It is very much like smoking, or not wearing seatbelts, or wearing a life jacket while in a canoe. It is particularly the case with younger people when it is considered "cool" to disdain being safe or careful. But many older people who insist that they are careful and responsible disdain protecting themselves and others from a virus. So very sad.
 
(quoted from post at 10:32:11 08/31/20) That's too bad, the driver must of been going too fast and not paying attention. Just yesterday I noticed my neighbor out mowing the lawn on his lawn tractor, with a child in his lap! How many times do we hear of children being badly hurt because of this?
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I am no longer quiet when I see that. Ex-wife's granddaughter had her leg cut off at age 3 by riding a mower driven by her 6 year old brother. Parents thought it was cute, until it wasn't. Anyone who heard the screams at night in the PICU can no longer be silent when we see that going on.
 
Well it happened! Nobody can reverse what happened, someone made a mistake, we all make mistakes. The family is grieving. I can never understand why some people tear into a person who made a mistake while that person's parents and family is in shock trying to cope with the tragedy. His family is in for some very heavy tough times in the next few years and will have to live with it for the rest of their lives. Why rub their noses in it?
 
Being the father of teenagers myself I can't imagine anything worse than to watch your child be killed right in front of you like this. I'm sure the mental image will haunt the father and the skidsteer driver for the rest of their lives. Regardless of how safe we try to be all of us do things on occasion that looking back we think "hmmm, that could have gone bad". Most of the time these errors in judgement we all are guilty of pass without incident (potentially leading to complacency) but unfortunately there are times that they can lead to tragedy such as in this case.
 
How many times is safety mentioned here . Just to have the indigent offender tell us that he has the situation in control and that we should buzz off.
 
And the purveyors of bad news can not resist rebroadcasting tragic events so they and their fellow old hens can cluck and fuss and say, "See I told you so!"
If you think something is unsafe don't do it.
 
(quoted from post at 10:40:48 08/31/20) Well it happened! Nobody can reverse what happened, someone made a mistake, we all make mistakes. The family is grieving. I can never understand why some people tear into a person who made a mistake while that person's parents and family is in shock trying to cope with the tragedy. His family is in for some very heavy tough times in the next few years and will have to live with it for the rest of their lives. Why rub their noses in it?
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Fixerupper, is the father or the fellow driving the skidsteer on YT?
 
Its not a 'mistake' when someone's life is ended by an act of negligence.The people responsible will have a heavy burden if they have any conscience but it doesn't lessen their responsibility for what happened.
 
Anything you do there is risk to it. Apparently the guy driving the tractor wasn't paying attention. We used to do that a lot when the kids were small but my wife rode in the bucket with one kid at a time. I always drove slow so in the event someone fell out I could stop immediately.
 
(quoted from post at 12:58:20 08/31/20)
(quoted from post at 10:40:48 08/31/20) Well it happened! Nobody can reverse what happened, someone made a mistake, we all make mistakes. The family is grieving. I can never understand why some people tear into a person who made a mistake while that person's parents and family is in shock trying to cope with the tragedy. His family is in for some very heavy tough times in the next few years and will have to live with it for the rest of their lives. Why rub their noses in it?
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Fixerupper, is the father or the fellow driving the skidsteer on YT?
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Fixerupper is a father who lost a 27 year old child, the parent of three little girls. Until you have been through it you will never understand it.
 
I guess i just don’t have the issues with stray kids wandering my fields waiting to stick their fingers and hands into operating machinery like some on here do
 
That same kind of thing happened not too far from me. Kid was driving a tractor, a couple kids in the bucket. The driver hit a bump one fell out and got run over. As long as we have mechanical things, someone will get injured, or killed. Stan
 
I agree with case. is any thing safe, the rules and laws were put there for a reason, mostly for our safety. if we don't use them, then it is our fault, and that would be hard to live with. I don't know how I survived growing up. I think if I could do one thing over in life, again, I would keep better tires on my vehicles. mark55
 
Tragic accidents like this are so easy to prevent. Why pretend that they have to continue happening?
 
If anyone was speaking to me about what I said I want to say i was not meaning any disrespect to the family or the driver and sorry of it came across that way,, I was upset for the loss I guess as I do take a lot of pride in trying to be as safe as I can be when operating especially so when other are working with/around me,, that is all,, lost of life is nothing I wish to see in any case or a injury for that matter, I had a friend and customer who was a pilot as was his one daughter, both Excellent ones too, certificated in single and twin engine air craft as well as choppers, one day the family was taking a flight in the Dads twin engine plane,, a fairly good sized one, he was doing pre-flight and the daughter went out to pull the wheel chalks, she removed the first one went to the second one on the side her Dad was at the controls on,, pull them threw off tot he side and stepped into the prop,, I cant even imagine how that could feel to Dad and all her family on board,, sadly about 5 years later he was flying his new to him chopper and something caused the rotors to shred off,, they were found almost a mile form the crash site,, just two of the horrible accidents I have in my head,, again Sorry if my words below offended anyone I have been called Blunt and it shows more often than I know
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(quoted from post at 20:09:55 08/31/20) Anything you do there is risk to it. Apparently the guy driving the tractor wasn't paying attention. We used to do that a lot when the kids were small but my wife rode in the bucket with one kid at a time. I always drove slow so in the event someone fell out I could stop immediately.
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First gear idle, maybe.
I do not think I would justify doing it by saying I only let one kid and my wife in the bucket at a time though.
 
(quoted from post at 18:24:31 08/31/20)
(quoted from post at 17:24:23 08/31/20) It was bad judgement, let's not judge and just hope we choose better.
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Aren't you judging by calling it bad judgement?
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Calling a spade a spade . Passengers in the loader bucket is a stupid risk .
 

A lot of difference between riding in a skid steer bucket and a tractor loader bucket. In a skid steer, the rider is only a few feet from the driver versus way out in front in a loader tractor. I rode countless times in the skid steer bucket as a kid and sometimes do today. My kids ride in the skid steer bucket when we go out to pick rocks, only with the bucket all the way down. Very acceptable risk. Much safer than on a tractor loader, or in the back of a pickup, or on an atv or utv.

This was a tragic accident. You guys sure are quick to kick a fellow when he is down without knowing anything more than the most basic of details. A lot of you are the same ones with the I was driving tractor at SIX years old! stories... hope youre proud of yourselves.
 
I worked at several industrial plants that used fork lifts and loaders,about the quickest way to get fired on the spot was to ride in the bucket or on the forks for both the driver and rider,for very good reason.
 
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