Staying Safe On The Farm
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
The state Farm Bureau is showing high school
students the dangerous side of the agricultural life.
About two dozen Future Farmers of America students at Vilonia
High School watched today as a straw-filled dummy -- posing as a
careless farmer -- was sucked into a tractor shaft.
When the dummy was sucked in, straw flew into the air and its
clothes wrapped around the shaft.
Andy Guffey of the Arkansas Farm Bureau says that could just as
easily happen to a human. He says a tractor shaft will wrap a grown
man around it in less than two seconds and begin tearing off limbs.
The National Safety Council says 730 farmers were injured in
agriculture-related accidents nationwide last year. The council
lists tractor incidents as the leading cause of farm deaths.
Guffey says people should NOT go behind a tractor while the
shaft is spinning.
Posted by Mike Hellgren
