D3o—UncMter Farming, Saturday, March 17,1984
Machinery still heads farm accidents
LANCASTER Part-time
safety in any phase of the farm
operation invites personal loss and
often tragedy. No loss compares
with the farm accident which costs
the life of a family member. Less
tragic, but extremely serious, is
loss of an arm or leg, or of health.
Crop loss can’t compare, as those
who have suffered a serious ac
cident can attest.
Common pense is revered by the
safety conscious. Most except
some who have experienced
tragedy profess to employ this
trait in giant doses. Yet farm
accident statistics remain
shockingly high, a conclusion
based on a just completed Du
Pont Agrichemicals study which
reports safety data on 1,216 farm
operations. Du Pont findings belie
the simple expedient of using only
common sense.
Common sense is basic, but
safety specialists believe more
caution is needed. Preparation, or
getting ready for the task at hand,
is a priority. For the professional
athlete, preparation begins well
before the competition. Then
comes concentration. No athlete
performs well without both. Full
time farm safety requires the
same kind of dedication.
The Du Pont study indicates
progress is being made, especially
in using crop protection chemicals.
Chemical mishaps accounted for
only 6.8 percent of all farm ac
cidents. Jim Borel, of Du Pont,
believes this is encouraging. “We
are finding that the emphasis in
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recent years on how to use farm
chemicals safety is making users
aware of the need of prepare and
follow with care when mixing and
applying.”
Borel believes that the farm
operator and any family member
or employee who know the label
have taken the first step in safe
use. Preparation is next: having a
container of 5 to 10 gallons of water
for immediate washing in case of
contact with a wearing chemical;
wearing clothing which fully
covers the body, and wearing
goggles and gloves, and, at times,
a respirator. Then, Borel says,
comes the time for concentration
unhurried mixing and pouring to
avoid spills and splashes. Such
measures help assure safe use of
the chemicals necessary for cost
effective crop yields.
In the study, Borel says that only
half, or 50.4 percent, of farm
operations reported that they
always wear gloves when handling
chemicals. A need, often as im
portant, is goggles. Less than 20
percent reported always wearing
goggles. Half said they sometimes
wear goggles while handling
chemicals. And less than one in 20
reported using respirators for the
most toxic materials. These ac
cessories are relatively inex
pensive and Borel believes that
family welfare and safety demand
greater attention to these
precautions.
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than 1,200 reporting farm
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state Poison Information Center
telephone number posted by the
telephone. Only 12.8 percent
reported storing chemicals in a
special, locked storage building.
More farm operators, Borel
believes, are checking the label for
word signals which define the
degree of potential hazard. “These
range from ‘Danger’ for Group 1
chemicals, to ‘Warning’ for less
toxic compounds, to ‘Caution’ for
the least hazardous.” For example
“Lexone” 4L carries the
“Caution” label as a liquid for
mulation. However, in the dry
flowable formulation, “Lexone”
DF, the “Warning” signal is used.
In any case, all chemicals, he
stresses, are toxic and require
common sense plus preparation
and observing careful handling
procedures.
Few farms, the survey showed,
contain adequate shop safety
features and safeguards. Just
more than one-third of the farm
operators reporting, 35.9 percent,
believe they have adequate farm
shops insofar as safety is con
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The Du Pont survey pinpoints
farm machinery as the major area
needing improvement. A total of
44.8 percent of the lost-time ac-
WHAT CAUSES FARM ACCIDENTS?
In q recenr survey conducted by Du Ftonr maker
of Lexone weed killer machinery-related
accidents ranked first as the cause of accidents
or injuries causing a loss of time on the farm
MACHINERY-RELATED
CAUSED BY A FALL 22%
LIVESTOCK-RELATED
CHEMICAL-RELATED
AUTOMOTIVE-RELATED | - 6.0%
OTHERS 12%
Any Size
cidents and deaths were
machinery related. Falls ac
counted for half as many accidents
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