Hogs Eat Farmer

I guess the Hogs figured that since the Farmers and the rest of us have been eating them forever so they decided to have their own version of PORKY'S REVENGE.

Or Animal Farm II

Casualties are to be expected, but we're still way up on the pigs in this war for bacon.

They use to toss unruly slaves to the hogs. People sometimes forget that pigs are omnivores just like us and bears.

I hope the poor guy was dead before the hogs started on him.

This ain't funny.

My great aunt was attacked by one. Took a chunk out of her leg, had to have skin grafted from her back to patch it up.

No, it's not funny.

Farming is a dangerous occupation...

...farm tractors roll overs
...moving parts on farm equipment may entangle loose clothing
...driving farm machinery on public roads
...toxic gases from crop or manure storage
...pesticides and chemicals
...dangerous/large animals

The fact that farmers and ranchers often work alone in isolated rural areas adds to the risk of farming. They may become entrapped, entangled or disabled for hours before they receive medical attention.

Yup. When I was 12 or 13 I was loading hay bales onto a conveyor up to the hayloft and the sleeve of my jean-jacket got caught in the drive chain. I was 7 or 8 feet off the ground and about half way to the sprocket at the top before I wriggled out and fell to the ground. Another 10 seconds or so and I'd have lost my arm. Shit can happen fast. That was the last time I ever did anything around equipment while wearing loose clothing.

A friend of mine in high school was given his birthday present a few days early. they were steel toed boots. He was loading grain into a hopper when the auger got clogged. he went to kick it to dislodge the clog and his foot slipped in. As it was he had to get skin grafts. It was the steel toe that jammed the thing solid and saved his foot. Another guy a year older than me lost his dad when the harrows fell on him. A girl I dated lost her dad when the tractor overturned along side a drainage ditch and pinned him under. My grade 12 organic chemistry teacher was also a farmer, and he lost his right thumb reaching into the combine and snagging a belt.

One of my granduncles pulled a real boner. When he was using anhydrous ammonia for the first time, a hose burst and he grabbed it with his bare hands...took awhile for the burns(freezing) to heal. I can't count the times that I've seen older farmers reach into seeders and mix treated seed with their bare hands. My mom's cousin lost half a dozen head of cattle that got into treated canola...they didn't go quick or painlessly, yet there he was, no gloves on evening it out in his seeder.

Personally, I've been stepped on and kicked by cattle and horses, treed by boars...and sows with young. Fortunately nothing too serious.

Memo to self: Do NOT adopt a hog as a pet!

Dad preached safety and led by example. Equipment was shut off, not just disengaged, before repairing or unclogging. And you always did head counts before turning anything on. He had three boys following him around, and the only casualty was a BMX bike somebody left behind a grain truck.

Plenty of close calls and injuries happened to neighbors growing up, one death. Moving an auger and contacting a power line. But the worst injuries on our farm came from dirtbikes and snowmobiles.

The old ones don't get much smarter when they leave the farm either, I know one that uses chemicals that specifically say to avoid skin contact to clean his hands.

I had a high school shop teacher who drilled into us a list of unsafe conditions, and unsafe actions. He made us memorize them, and recite them by rote on command. (I think I still can) The third unsafe condition was loose clothing or jewellery. You could not work in the shop area (classroom only) if you were wearing long sleeves, and all jewellery (rings, watches, neclaces and dangly earrings) had to be removed before you went into the shop.

There was never an accident in his shop beyond a paper cut, and I still have all my fingers and toes despite working with things from heavy loaders to plane blades. Although - I did try to stop a router bit with my thumb this summer, and it went right through the glove and part of my thumb - but you can hardly see the scar.




A place I used to work, the guy who did the repainting on heavy equipment insisted that all the safety warnings for paints etc were just BS. He never wore a respirator in the 10 years he was painting in the poorly ventilated bay that was assigned for that purpose.

One day, while outside on a smoke break, he said he wasn't feeling quite right. He was looking a bit more 'golden' than usual and said he hadn't had a pee for a day or so, so he deciede to go to the doctor. After a few quick tests, they found all his internal organs had shut down from the years of inhaling solvents and catalyzers. It had probably been coming for years. He didn't come back to work, and was dead inside a week.

Safety warnings are for pussies, after all. /sarcasm

Same here, safety first... I've done shop and still do when I can, I've also worked on a farm, on fishing boats, oil spill cleanup and in construction.

The worst accidents I've had are in the kitchen.