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Re: Man Dies ,This Afternoon in a Farm Accident !!
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Posted by NE IA Dave on April 08, 2007 at 11:05:09 from (12.215.72.127):
In Reply to: Man Dies ,This Afternoon in a Farm Accident !!! posted by D-C-741 on April 07, 2007 at 22:31:34:
We are all making the asumption that it was the PTO shaft. That could very well be the fact, but I have personaly dug three different folks out of the auger. The 3 piont diggers, usualy the cheaper ones will not dig so good in hard dirt, so everyone pushes down with their bodies on top. Once a short bolt or the flighting on the digger grabs your clothing it is to late. We do some work like that, and we use a long pipe wedged in the digger to give you weight from a distance. I find it amazing how many very smart people think they can run the control lever fast enough to stop in case something goes wrong. I must say probably most of the folks that have gray hair, (or in my case just a little hair) have had a few close calls where we just got lucky. As much as we hate OSHA, they probably have saved a few of our hides if we just knew it. We all have seen some guys just pray for a accident, yet seem to skip over the top, or make it just in time. Injurys are many times for a extended peroid of time, and death on this earth seems so final. Just plain sad when avoidable as most accidents are.
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