Tractor Rollovers and Run Overs

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Tractor Rollovers and Run Overs

• Can you prevent one on your farm?

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Outline

• Background
• Research
• Are accidents accidental?
• Accident/incident analysis
• Case studies
• Assess your knowledge base
• Assess your personal risk
• profile

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Background

• Tractor rollovers and run overs
• Are not common accidents.
• Have a high potential for causing
• death or disabling injury when they
• do occur.
• Prevention efforts have a high
• pay back value.

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Research

• The Canadian Agricultural Injury Surveillance
  Program (CAISP) reports that tractor rollovers
  and run overs result in
• 30 deaths
• 75 hospitalized injuries
• on Canadian farms on average, every year.

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Are accidents accidental?

• Accidents viewed as
• freak events
• result of carelessness
• Research has shown that accidents
• have identifiable risk factors
• are predictable
• are preventable
• Terminology change
• incidents

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Accident/incident analysis

• Immediate cause
• Possible contributing factors
• Human
• Mechanical
• Environmental
• Basic, systemic cause
• What one thing could prevent a
• similar incident?

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Case studies

• Modeled on tractor fatalities that occurred on
  Canadian farms from 1990 1996.
• Basic circumstances of an actual incident are
  depicted.
• Name of victim, date and location of incident,
  tractor make/model are fictitious.

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Case study 1

• Orville, age 69
• Died October 4, 1990
• Incident
• Ground-starting tractor, run over, crushed.

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Case study 1 Incident analysis

• What was the immediate cause of the incident?
• What were possible contributing factors?
• What one thing could prevent a similar incident?

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Case study 2

• Marc, age 18
• Died August 28, 1995
• Incident
• Towing heavy load downhill lost control of
  tractor, sideways rollover, crushed.

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Case study 2 Incident analysis

• What was the immediate cause of the incident?
• What were possible contributing factors?
• What one thing could prevent a similar incident?

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Case study 3

• George, age 49
• Died September 28, 1996
• Incident
• Fell off tractor, run over.

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Case study 3 Incident analysis

• What was the immediate cause of the incident?
• What were possible contributing factors?
• What one thing could prevent a similar incident?

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Case study 4

• Carl, age 3
• Died June 25, 1993
• Incident
• Blind runover by lawn tractor.

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Case study 4 Incident analysis

• What was the immediate cause of the incident?
• What were possible contributing factors?
• What one thing could prevent a similar incident?

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Case study 5

• Gerry, age 53
• Died July 15, 1992
• Incident
• Knocked off tractor by a tree branch, run over.

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Case study 5 Incident analysis

• What was the immediate cause of the incident?
• What were possible contributing factors?
• What one thing could prevent a similar incident?

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Case study 6

• Luis, age 25
• Died April 30, 1994
• Incident
• Sideways tractor rollover off ramp,
• crushed.

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Case study 6 Incident analysis

• What was the immediate cause of the incident?
• What were possible contributing factors?
• What one thing could prevent a similar incident?

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Case study 7

• Donna, age 38
• Died March 28, 1994
• Incident
• Front end loader imbalance, backward tractor
  rollover, drowned.

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Case study 7 Incident analysis

• What was the immediate cause of the incident?
• What were possible contributing factors?
• What one thing could prevent a similar incident?

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Case study 8

• Gilles, age 12
• Died April 5, 1991
• Incident
• Using tractor to tow out stuck vehicle, backward
  rollover, crushed.

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Case study 8 Incident analysis

• What was the immediate cause of the incident?
• What were possible contributing factors?
• What one thing could prevent a similar incident?

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Case study 9

• Ashley, age 5
• Died May 23, 1992
• Incident
• Extra rider fell from tractor cab, run over.

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Case study 9 Incident analysis

• What was the immediate cause of the incident?
• What were possible contributing factors?
• What one thing could prevent a similar incident?

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Case study 10

• Don, age 31
• Died May 4, 1995
• Incident
• Dismounted running tractor, run over.

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Case study 10 Incident analysis

• What was the immediate cause of the incident?
• What were possible contributing factors?
• What one thing could prevent a similar incident?

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Overall quiz score

• With each case study, you tested your knowledge
  about safe tractor operation by answering quiz
  questions.
• Now add up your scores for the ten quizzes for an
  overall quiz score.

/ 50
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Personal Risk Profile

• Determining factors
• Knowledge (quiz score)
• Sex, age
• Province of residence
• Tractor operation hours/year
• Condition of tractor
• Condition of operator
• Work practices
• Safety perceptions

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Personal Risk Profile Scoring

• 85 100 RISK LOW
• Stay alert and keep up the good work
• 70 84 RISK LOWER THAN AVERAGE, BUT CAN
  BE IMPROVED
• Can you afford to risk your life or the
  life of someone else?
• 50 69 RISK SIGNIFICANT
• You are taking a gamble with your life or
  the life of someone else.
• lt 50 RISK HIGH
• You are endangering your life or the life of
  someone else.

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Conclusion

• It takes more than luck to prevent a tractor
  rollover or run over.
• But you can do it!

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Program Partners

• Centre for Agricultural Medicine
• University of Saskatchewan
• Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
• Canadian Coalition for Agricultural Safety and
  Rural Health