Other Grain Farming

NarrativeAt 12:30 p.m. on September 26, 2018, an employee was observing a coworker who was driving a tractor with a baler. The coworker shut down the tractor and the employee began adjusting the area around the stuffer arm. The employee finished with the adjustments and cleared the stuffer. The coworker restarted operations and the stuffer arm began to cycle. The coworker saw the employee be struck in his head. The employee was killed from blunt force trauma to the head.

NarrativeAt 12:00 p.m. on June 17, 2017, Employee #1 and Coworker #1, employed by an agricultural company, were each driving John Deere tractors down a dirt road, headed to hay fields they had been assigned to rake. The tractors would be used to pull hay rakes. Coworker #1 subsequently reported that he witnessed Employee #1, who was driving a John Deere 2755, veer off the road and into a concrete canal. Employee #1 was ejected from the tractor and hit his head. Employee #1 was conscious and bleeding. Emergency services were called. When the emergency personnel arrived, Employee #1 was unconscious. He was flown to a hospital, where he died from blunt impact injury to his head. Employee #1 may have lost control of the tractor due to a stroke. The subsequent investigation determined that Employee #1's seat belt was not in working order.

NarrativeAn employee's left thumb was amputated to the first knuckle while the employee was inspecting the drain plug on the bottom of a chemical mixer.