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Title: 2 young girls dead, 1 critically injured in Alberta farming incident
Category: Misc CDN
Posted By: Alta_redneck
Date: 2015-10-13 21:33:07
Canadian

[DrCaleb]

Too many farm accidents involve kids. Incidents involving grain even more so.

[andyt]

I wonder how many accidents come from farmers just pushing too hard. Certainly in logging a lot of the accidents could have been prevented by slowing down a bit and thinking things thru. But when management and workers both subscribe to the policy of "highball", one for money, the other for pride, that's what you get.

[DrCaleb]

andyt andyt:

I wonder how many accidents come from farmers just pushing too hard. Certainly in logging a lot of the accidents could have been prevented by slowing down a bit and thinking things thru. But when management and workers both subscribe to the policy of "highball", one for money, the other for pride, that's what you get.

I'd guess most of them are from time constraints or being tired. But that is true of most accidents. By definition, accidents are preventable.

But children 'playing' near farm equipment while the equipment is in operation I think accounts for 17% of farm accidents. And there is no reason they should be anywhere near the equipment, and most farmers try to keep the young ones away. Seeds, and canola in particular seem to be the worst, because they don't present as a danger but in fact are extremely dangerous.

[PJB]

Just heard that the third girl passed away. Tragic does not describe it.

[Alta_redneck]

Sitting in a load of Canola is like trying to walk around in a kids ball pit, the more you move the more you sink. When I was about 5, I liked to ride in the back of loaded grain trucks and see how long I could stand at the top of the box as it got hoisted up to unload, done it a 100 time

The last time I did it, the driver went to the cab of the truck to hoist the box to it's max, the barley I was standing on shifted and slid down taking me with it and I was buried. I found out quickly that ever time you yelled for help your mouth would fill up with grain. The truck driver came back to the rear of the truck and noticed right away I was no longer in the truck.

He kind of looked around the truck, But he realized that I still must be in the truck and started digging with his hands, by this time I was upside down, as he frantically dug he caught a glimpse of my pants and went in for me and got my head out. I was very close to being a statistic that day.

[Robair]

Alta_redneck Alta_redneck:

Sitting in a load of Canola is like trying to walk around in a kids ball pit, the more you move the more you sink. When I was about 5, I liked to ride in the back of loaded grain trucks and see how long I could stand at the top of the box as it got hoisted up to unload, done it a 100 time

The last time I did it, the driver went to the cab of the truck to hoist the box to it's max, the barley I was standing on shifted and slid down taking me with it and I was buried. I found out quickly that ever time you yelled for help your mouth would fill up with grain. The truck driver came back to the rear of the truck and noticed right away I was no longer in the truck.

He kind of looked around the truck, But he realized that I still must be in the truck and started digging with his hands, by this time I was upside down, as he frantically dug he caught a glimpse of my pants and went in for me and got my head out. I was very close to being a statistic that day.

A pile of grain does not look dangerous.

Played on many growing up. And stacks of bails. Was playing at heights that would have broken my little neck.

This is horrible. Playing with your siblings one minute...

[andyt]

You would think by now then that farmers have figured out that grain is dangerous and teach their kids to stay away from it. This sounds to me like the casual attitude people take towards life jackets, until it's too late.

[GreenTiger]

andyt andyt:

I wonder how many accidents come from farmers just pushing too hard. Certainly in logging a lot of the accidents could have been prevented by slowing down a bit and thinking things thru. But when management and workers both subscribe to the policy of "highball", one for money, the other for pride, that's what you get.

This happens is a lot of industries, in NASA they call it "GO FEVER" It got a lot of good people killed. The Russian had the same problem too so it effects a lot of groups who loose sight of common sense to think about what you are going before people get killed.