E4-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 17,1993 Grange, PSU, VERNON ACHENBACH JR. Lancaster Farming Staff NORTH CORNWALL (Leba non Co.) About 40 people, mostly emergency medical volun teers, attended a farm emergency rescue educational meeting last week at the Lebanon Area Fair grounds to get hands-on experi ence with the danger areas of a var iety of pieces of farm equipment and machinery. Sponsored by the Jackson Mervin Sensenig, owner of the installation and service portion for Cedar Crest Equipment, and also a certified emergency medical technician, shows a cotter pin on a gear of a Rissler TMR mixer, that, if missing, or sheared, could prevent the gear from being reversed if someone needed to be freed from entanglement. In an emergency, a small nail or similar temporary device could be used to replace the cotter pin. UpTo¥)urEars In Triazine-Resistant Weeds? Dealers Teach Emergency Farm Rescue Class Grange, Penn State University Extension, and a number of farm equipment, machine and imple ment dealers, the program was part of a series of safety programs offered through the Lebanon County Extension service. The equal-opportunity exten sion service offered other safety programs, held last month. Mon day’s program had been originally scheduled for March, but because of the blizzard, was postponed until this week. It was one of three programs involving Dr. Dennis Murphy, PSU professor of agricul tural engineering, and Kenneth Winebark, county extension agent. Rescheduling the farm equip ment program meant that a few dealers and people who had intended to support the program had scheduling conflicts and couldn’t attend. Monday’s program was designed to show participants the various aspects of a piece of farm equipment, what the dangerous parts were, the types of injuries that have occured, how to disen gage gears and bring to a stop any moving part of a particular £ Groff holds one of two inflatable bags kept on his EMS truck. Using pressurized air, the bags are inflated and can lift objects high enough to extricate a trapped accident victim. The two bags carried on Groff’s truck have lifting capacities of 19 tons and 13 tons. machine, and what rescue equip ment could best be used on the farm. The program was helpful, according to Lee Groff, EMS man (Turn to Page E 5) <JfV V ■* A
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