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Dan and Leanne Griffith recommend special protective
chaps that can stall a chain saw before It cuts Into an oper
ator’s leg.
(Condnuwi from Pago A 1)
According to the Griffiths,
23,500 children in America each
year receive farm-related injuries
serious enough to require treat
ment by a doctor or hospital.
About 5,000 farm youngsters are
permanently disabled annually.
And approximately 300 children
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almost one each day die
each year in farming-related
accidents.
Relying on their backgrounds
as farmers and educators Dan
was a vo-ag teacher in the Marion
Center Area School District and
Leanne taught science at Indiana
Area Junior High the Griffiths
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Safety Should Be Top Concern
Leanns and Dan Griffith talk-about soma of the props for their farm safety demon
strations with sons Samuel, 1, and Chris, 5.
years ago began preaching farm
safety as two of the seven adult
advisors of the Indiana County
4-H Safe Tractor Club.
Using a $520 grant from the
National 4-H Council and a
$2,500 grant from the Pennsylva
nia Department of Agriculture,
they created a series of farm safety
minidemonstrations designed for
youngsters. Their goal was to cre
ate educational workshops where
the minidemonstrations could be
used as training aids to spread the
safety information as widely as
possible.
“What we’re trying to do is
have the kids learn them, and go
out and do them for other groups,”
Dan said.
The nine minidemonstrations
cover the importance of wearing
protective clothing when using
pesticides, removing pesticide
residue from clothing, what to
have in a farm first-aid kit, pre
venting tractor rollovers, precau
tions to avoid getting caught in a
com picker, safety measures when
working around gravity wagons,
hearing protection, chain saw
safety, and testing reaction time.
The Griffiths and the other
advisors of the 4-H club presented
their demonstrations to a large
crowd for the first time last sum
mer. Farm youth from 17 counties
were invited to a 4-H Farm Safety
Field day at Mack Park in Indiana,
and more than 100 youth attended.
“Sadly, one farm family
couldn’t come that day,” Leanne
said, “they were at a funeral for a
cousin Who had been killed in a
tractor rollover accident.”
The Griffiths’ 4-H work
attracted die attention of state Rep.
Sara Steelman, (D-62nd). Steel
man asked the Griffiths to testify
in Somerset before the Pennsylva-
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Affairs Committee in support of
House Bill 2SOS that she
sponsored.
HB 2SOS would allocate
$250,000 a year for two years to
be used for developing and stag
ing farm safety education prog
rams, particularly for youngsters
and older farmers. Steelman said
the proposed legislation would
include a Binding cap of $20,000
for any one program.
The Griffiths werft scheduled to
testify before the committee on
Feb. 11, but a heavy snow forced
them and several of the House
members to cancel their travel
plans to Somerset. So the Griffiths
did the next best thing.
They videotaped their testi
mony for the committee members
to view at their convenience.
When they taped their presenta
tion, they did it not from the
viewpoint of Dan’s position as
(Tom to Pago A 23)