Abstract
Because access to the scene and inspection of the equipment were not possible in this case, a partial inspection was done. Conclusions cannot be drawn from the evidence collected.
A 68-year-old farmer died when he fell from his tractor into the path of an attached disc. The victim had begun discing a tobacco field about 3:00 p.m., minutes after his wife and son left for second-shift work at a factory. After completing one field, he proceeded to a second field to complete the afternoon's work. The second field was across a small galley. As the victim drove the tractor through the gulley, he fell from the moving tractor and was run over by the disc.
Document Type
Report
Release Date
8-24-1995
Incident Number
95KY046; 95KY04601
Repository Citation
Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center, "Farmer Is Run over by Disc after Falling from Tractor" (1995). Fatality Case Reports--Tractors/Logging. 40.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/face_tractors_reports/40
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