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was: My car got stolen.farm accidents
yes, very dangerous. it is not regulated by OSHA
either, since OSHA rules only apply to businesses with
more than 5 or 9 employees. if you have a family with
8 people, they all run the farm, no osha. and
agricultural activities aren't covered anyways. so no
training, little safety devices. extremely dangerous.
he had a bunch of stories about people. one family's
14 yo kid agot decapitated by some piece of equipment.
--- Larry Fry <rocco16@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Hardly a profession more dangerous than farming.
> I've heard of way too many
> tractor/disc, or combine, or grain auger, or PTO
> accidents to ever want MY
> kids to take up that noble profession.
> Larry
> sandiego16v
>
> > no, i'm in oklahoma, half the people here answer
> to
> > 'bubba'.
> > side note- one of my instructors at school is an
> OSHA
> > investigator, and he told a story about a guy who
> was
> > farming his field, had a problem with the reaper.
> he
> > got out to check on something, and it ran him over
> > with one of the wheels and broke both his legs.
> it
> > kept driving in a big circle until it came back to
> > where it was. it ran over him again, with the
> front
> > blades, sucked him up and spat him out over the
> sides,
> > where the truck would be. quite a mess, he told
> us.
> > his wife found him in the evening.
>
>
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