Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Report: A 15-Year-Old Male Farm Laborer Dies After the Tractor He was Operating Overturned Into a Manure Pile in Pennsylvania
Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Report: A 15-Year-Old Male Farm Laborer Dies After the Tractor He was Operating Overturned Into a Manure Pile in Pennsylvania
A 15-year-old male farm worker (the victim) died after the tractor he was operating overturned into a manure pit. The farm is in Pennsylvania. The tractor was equipped with a manure scraper fashioned from half a tractor tire mounted on the draw bar at the rear of the tractor. The victim and another 15-year-old-male, who was sitting on the tractors left fender, were scraping cattle manure across a concrete-surfaced barnyard toward the mouth of the manure pit. As the tractor approached the open mouth of the manure pit, the victim applied the brakes, and the tractor skidded on the concrete surface wet from the manure. The left front wheel slid over the concrete edge of the manure pit, causing the tractor to overturn into the manure pit. The tractor came to rest upside down, pinning the victim underneath. The victim and the tractor were completely submerged in the manure pit. The passenger was able to reach the dirt side wall of the pit, climb out, and run for help. Other farm workers immediately called 911 and went to assist the victim. The local Fire Department and rescue personnel arrived within minutes and started to search for the victim. Approximately 35 minutes after the incident, the victim was extracted from the manure pit. Rescue personnel initiated CPR immediately and transported the victim to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
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Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Report: A 15-Year-Old Male Farm Laborer Dies After the Tractor He was Operating Overturned Into a Manure Pile in Pennsylvania
2002
12 pages
Report
No indication
English
Public Health & Industrial Medicine , Agriculture & Food , Emergency Services & Planning , Police, Fire, & Emergency Services , Industrial Safety Engineering , Fatalities , Accident investigations , Pennsylvania , Agricultural machinery , Farm workers , Asphyxiation , Youths , Tractors , Scrapers , Concrete slabs , Dairy farms , Manure pits , Overturn accidents