Man electrocuted on on a tractor
- Thread starter Netherfield
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TripleSix
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- Helmsley, North Yorkshire
Feck that's bad.
Must've been subsoiling or similar?
Must've been subsoiling or similar?
Cowabunga
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- Location
- Ceredigion,Wales
There must be a set of unusual circumstances for someone inside a cab to be electrocuted. It 'usually' happens when someone gets out of the cab and provides a path to earth.
Princess Pooper
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- Location
- East Mids
how awful; there's been a dreadful spate of farming fatalities recently.. again.
keep safe everyone.
keep safe everyone.
Philip Watkins
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- Location
- Back in Shropshire
Must be more to it than what's in that report.
Netherfield
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- Location
- West Yorkshire
I guess we may have to wait for HSE now.
DeeGee
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- Location
- North East Wales
Firstly terrible incident and tragic for all concerned.
Obviously I don't know the circumstances, but like others I always thought that being in a vehicle provided a sort of safe Faraday cage where electricity is concerned.
Obviously I don't know the circumstances, but like others I always thought that being in a vehicle provided a sort of safe Faraday cage where electricity is concerned.
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
Far too many accidents the last few months.
I believe that Devon has already had more people killed in 4 months of this year than all of 2016 put together.
Why this is the case no one seems to know.
holywell farmer
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- holywell, north wales
Horrible thing to happen
brynseiri
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- Location
- Conwy, North Wales
Horrible way to go, electricity is a strange and unpredictable force
brynseiri
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- Location
- Conwy, North Wales
That's what I always thought, you've got to have one foot on the step and one foot on the ground to be shocked, but not so, far from it.
- Location
- Bedfordshire
You only need to have one foot near the step or near the ground, not necessarily touching either
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
How very sad. 
I have contacted lines and had to hop away from the tractor and it wasn't good, I could feel the tingle alright.
The poor family will be devastated, hopefully the details will be released so we can learn what caused this tragedy.
I have contacted lines and had to hop away from the tractor and it wasn't good, I could feel the tingle alright.
The poor family will be devastated, hopefully the details will be released so we can learn what caused this tragedy.
R tea
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- Location
- Never far from Home
Even if you have both feet on the ground but a small distance apart apart electricity can go up one leg, fry your insides and back down the other leg to ground.
Was always taught legs tightly together and bunny hop away to a safe distance if you have to get out.
Very sad all the same.
brynseiri
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- Conwy, North Wales
In theory, like I said, it's a very dangerous and unpredictable force, you just don't know exactly how it's going to react in any different situation.
Mr Charisma
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- Location
- stratford on Avon
Ought to get a expert on here to tell every one the do and do nots if you ever get tangled up in a live electric cable , i have a rough idea my self but would not be brave enough to put them down on a forum ,,,,, who knows it may just save a life
Advice would be helpful the electric bd has put new overhead lines up and put a pole near my gateway with stays ,turning out of the field a trailer will catch them and bring the whole lot down,can't get anyone to sort it.When you read such sad news it makes you think.A very sad time for one family
If he was working with a implement in the ground would that act like a earth?
Most accidents with electric would be touching overhead cables which the tyres would act as a insulator?
I don't know I'm just wondering !!
That's what I was thinking.