Posted by oldtanker on May 08, 2016 at 02:52:19 from (66.228.255.59):
In Reply to: Accident season? posted by 4xMF on May 07, 2016 at 15:15:04:
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Thing of it is that the workplace used to be just as bad if not worse for accidents. Then they created OSHA. Now for the most part the work place is pretty safe. Think about it. Almost any machinery roll over is either going to fast, operator error or having that equipment some place it shouldn't have been in, in the first place. Now I know that some will claim well I have to be there with a tractor. No, you don't. But because you just have to plant that extra 1/2 acre out of sheer greed..... Same thing with removing a shield and leaving it off just so it won't take so long to fix it next time. How many follow manufacturers instructions to shut off a tractor before working on it or a piece of PTO driven equipment again to save a few seconds?
Now we get into kids getting hurt. You guys claim to be family oriented men. Then say "kids get hurt on farms". Let some 10 year old town kid get hurt driving a car and you'd be the first to yell. Let a 10 year old get hurt driving a tractor and it's OK? 10 year olds and sometimes 15/16/17 year old kids don't always have the best judgment. And most farmers I know with kids out there on equipment unsupervised is again sheer greed. Got that extra free labor so you are going to use it. You put in more livestock, add a few more acres all to make more money cause you have the extra labor. Is a farm kid going to fall off able while climbing and get injured? Sure, but a city kid is going to find something to climb and they are going to fall too.
Nothing wrong with having a kid on a tractor for a ride. Nothing wrong with having that kid with you for hours in a buddy seat that they are not going to fall out of. But when you got that kid on your lap on an open station tractor while doing field work for hours you need to think about that.
The only funny part about this is farmers in general are going to get child services and OSHA involved in this if accident rates don't drop.
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