lucky boy

[Bald n Grumpy]

Depends if the handbrake works. I got trapped between a fertiliser spreader and manitou one morning when loading. Handbrake on, not working properly. When bags emptied and pressure on front wheels changed it took off. I left phone in cab. Luckily someone walking on road next to farm heard me shouting.

Lad died in Herefordshire in a similar situation

 

[Dry Rot]

It is so easy to have an accident and no risk assessment will save you. I was moving the tractor last week and the treads of the tyre picked up a loop of rope that was lying on the ground. That caught my foot through the open door and tightened so pulling me off balance so I couldn't reach the brake. Tractor kept moving and the noose tightening. Finally, the brain started functioning and I thought to pull the stop. Scary moment. Totally unforeseen.

 

[DRC]

Similar happened a few years ago near @silverfox

That’s right Kev. Graham Heatly . Luckily a neighbour heard him shouting for help . Lived to tell the tale

 

[Plough on]

You can't get out of a jcb without u bleeping at you if handbrake isn't on hard one to ignore find myself second nature putting it on. He was lucky.

 

[Courier]

Had a lad here who wouldn’t listen to advice to prop a silage grab with a piece of sleeper ( cut to length for the job) whilst fitting it on to the loader, instead he stood on a tine end to balance it for re-attachment, slipped off and the tine went all the way through his leg and out the other side.
With hindsight we shouldn’t have pulled him off it but he was lucky and it hadn’t damaged his artery - would have bled out in minutes if it had.
The lactic acids from the silage must have kept the tine clean ‘cos it healed really quickly…

 

[TheTallGuy]

It is so easy to have an accident and no risk assessment will save you. I was moving the tractor last week and the treads of the tyre picked up a loop of rope that was lying on the ground. That caught my foot through the open door and tightened so pulling me off balance so I couldn't reach the brake. Tractor kept moving and the noose tightening. Finally, the brain started functioning and I thought to pull the stop. Scary moment. Totally unforeseen.

What was rope doing lying on the floor? A proper risk assessment would have identified that keeping things tidy & in the correct location reduces various safety issues.

 

[Exfarmer]

Believe a lad died locally when he got out of a teleporter against a wall. Machine rolled back as brake not on and squeezed ro death by the door

 

[Dry Rot]

What was rope doing lying on the floor? A proper risk assessment would have identified that keeping things tidy & in the correct location reduces various safety issues.

Absolutely correct except that I haven't seen any slave auctions locally and can't afford paid staff so just have to do everything myself which doesn't leave a lot of time for "tidying up"!

 

[Will 1594]

2020?

Yes happened last year ,knew about it from a friend who farms near to redgates ,
lucky man

 

[BredRedHfd]

Read the article about man impaled by huge spike, coincidentally with a link below about 'man with world's largest penis'...Nearly got the two confused

 

[melted welly]

Depends if the handbrake works. I got trapped between a fertiliser spreader and manitou one morning when loading. Handbrake on, not working properly. When bags emptied and pressure on front wheels changed it took off. I left phone in cab. Luckily someone walking on road next to farm heard me shouting.

I got you those wheel chocks on overnight delivery though .

you’re not getting away from us that easy

 

[Shep]

I went to school with him and I was glad to hear he survived and has recovered well, I also know his wife and am glad she is not a widow with young children.

 

[JP1]

Full interview on the news tonight

The surgeon interviewed said it was miraculous considering how many vital organs and blood vessels were near the spike.

Air ambulance attended but in the end he was transfered by land ambulance and they said the calmness of him and his wife really assisted

 

[thorpe]

becomes a trip hazard

FFS

 

[manhill]

It is so easy to have an accident and no risk assessment will save you. I was moving the tractor last week and the treads of the tyre picked up a loop of rope that was lying on the ground. That caught my foot through the open door and tightened so pulling me off balance so I couldn't reach the brake. Tractor kept moving and the noose tightening. Finally, the brain started functioning and I thought to pull the stop. Scary moment. Totally unforeseen.

Maybe a csse for having more than one emergency stop and accesszble from outside the cab.

 

[Boysground]

Unfortunately I know a similar case where the farmer wasn't so lucky. We all have to be very careful out there.

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[Dry Rot]

Accidents are unpredictable and it isn't usually possible to plan against them, that's why they are called accidents. All we can do is reduce the risks and buy insurance.

 

[ollie989898]

I would always lower the attachment to the ground before getting out, my friend was working with a telehandler and pallet fork, left it with the boom up a bit, was busy doing something turned around and walked into the forks smashing his front teeth in the process. Makes me cringe to see attachment up at chest or head height.

 

[Pistonbroke]

It's not the obviously dangerous hazards that people succumb to, it's the everyday mundane that catches them out.

Not quite a bale spike,son was larking around on some wool bags and managed to get on the pointy end of one of the pegs

 

[Ballygreenan]

I went to school with him and I was glad to hear he survived and has recovered well, I also know his wife and am glad she is not a widow with young children.

In a distant way we're related, we heard about it at the time it was a very worrying time for his family, most of them still on this side of the sheugh!