Safety Should Be Top Concern
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president of the Indiana County
Farmers Association or his mem
bership on the Penn Stale 4-H Ag
Engineering Curriculum
Committee.
Instead, they made their video
tape from the standpoint of a farm
family and had their three
children play roles in the
testimony.
One of the most graphic exhi
bits on the videotape shows
5-year-old Christopher Griffith
demonstrating the danger of work
ing in a gravity box wagon.
Christopher places a toy figure of
a little girl on top of shelled com
in a model of a gravity wagon.
When he opens the slide gate at
the bottom of the wagon, the girl
is sucked into the com and
covered.
Leanne said the exhibit was
created by an lowa farm mother
whose 11-year-old child was suf
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The tape also stresses what Dan
said is one of the most easily pre
vented farm accidents having
extra riders thrown from tractors.
The demonstration emphasizes
that tractors have only one seat
and so should only have one rider.
In their taped endorsement of
HB 2505, the Griffiths urge legi
slators to specifically earmark
some of the proposed funds for
educating younger children.
“Unfortunately, we have very
few materials to teach farm safety
to youriger children,” Leanne said
“Most farm safety curriculum is
designed for youngsters age 14
and older. We would encourage
you to designate some funds in
this bill for 6- to 13-year-old
children.”
The Griffiths also asked the
committee members to include
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safety specialist That person’s job
would be to coordinate safety
programs and provide a clearing
house for safety information, cur
riculum materials and available
safety displays.
The Griffiths see the youth
safety specialist as a resource per
son who could alto travel through
out the state assisting volunteer
groups like the Indiana County
4-H Safe Tractor Club that are try
ing to make farms safer.
Tlie initial grant money the
Griffiths received has been spent
well-spent, Leanne believes.
“We have worked with several
hundred farm children over the
last 12 years,” she said. “Does
safety education work? We have
teen positive results. To our
knowledge, no one who has been
in our club has been permanently
disabled or killed in a farm
accident”
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UNIVERSITY PARK (Centre
Co.) According to statistics
compiled by Penn State Universi
ty's Department of Agricultural
and Biological Engineering,
youngsters and older people are
frequently most at risk in farm
related accidents. And tractors are
involved in nearly two-thirds of
all fatal accidents on Pennsylvania
farms.
In 1991 and 1992 the most
recent yean for which complete
figures are available—there were
at least 84 fatal accidents on the
stole’s farms.
Twenty-eight of the people
killed (33 percent) were age 6S or
older.
Twelve of those killed (14 per
cent) were age 10 or younger.
Tractors were the common
thread in many of the deaths.
Fifty-two of the 84 fatalities (62
percent) involved tractors or the
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Thirty deaths resulted from tractor
overturns, IS people died when
they were run over by a tractor or
the machinery it was pulling, five
were fatally injured when they
were entangled in PTOs, and two
were killed in falls Cram tractors.
The Penn State statistics also
noted seven people drowned in
farm ponds and seven died from
injuries from horses, mules, and
cows.
Among the other causes of acci
dental deaths listed were falls
from bam roofs, fires, and carbon
monoxide poisoning.
BELOIT. Wis. The Brown
Swiss Cattle Breeders’ Associa
tion of America announced this
week that is has made available a
video tape extolling the virtues of
the dairy cattle breed.
According to a news release,
‘The new informational video,
‘Brown Swiss, the Ultimate Dairy
Machine,’ is now available. This
IS-minute, full color video show
casing the attributes of the popular
and profitable Brown Swiss cow is
filled with testimony from top
Brown Swiss breeders.”
According to the news release,
the video was designed to high
light breed attributes and provide
answers that commercial and
registered breeders may have.
‘This is a perfect education tool
for 4-H and FFA clubs, or any
dairy businessman seeking infor
mation about Brown Swiss,”
according to the news release.
For more information, call the
association at (608) 365-4474.
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