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Accident: 136560.015 - Employee Is Pinned And Killed Between Stacked Bales Of Hay

Accident: 136560.015 -- Report ID: 0352470 -- Event Date: 06/18/2021
InspectionOpen DateSICEstablishment Name
1538136.01506/18/2021Highland Turf, Inc.
At 9:30 a.m. on June 18, 2021, an employee was working for a hay farm. He was op erating a John Deere model 4040 farm tractor. It was pulling a New Holland model 1037 pull-type stacker wagon. He was using the farm equipment to stack bales of hay on farm land. For some reason, he got down from the tractor and climbed up onto the lowered hydraulic gate of the New Holland stacker wagon. He did not dis engage the power take-off (PTO). In such a state, the stack wagon remained fully functional. The hydraulic gate rose up and pinned the employee between the stac ked bales of hay in the wagon and those on the hydraulic gate. The employee was found by his parents pinned between the bales of hay. He was pronounced dead at the scene. He had been killed.
Keywords: agriculture, agriculture machinery/vehicle, caught between, caught in, farm machinery, lockout, machine cycled, pinned, power take-off
Employee # Inspection Age Sex Degree Nature
1 1538136.015 60 M Fatality

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