'age 24—Corn Talk, Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 9, 1999
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In November 1998, Larry
Harpster was working on his
Huntington County farm fill
ing a plastic silage bag with
high-moisture shelled com.
Because the wet corn wasn’t
flowing out of the gravity
wagon very well, Larry
climbed into the wagon and
pushed the shelled com out
into the bagger.
On the 14th load of corn
that day, the wagon began to
tip over while he was pushing
corn out. Most of the com
was out of the unloading side,
but about 50 to 60 bushels
were lodged on the opposite
side of the wagon.
“I thought the whole
wagon was tipping,” Harpster
said. “I didn’t want to be
pinned under it, so I tried to
jump at an angle.”
The edge of the wagon box
hit the ground before
Harpster could jump clear,
catapulting him out of the
wagon with unbelievable
force. He rolled an additional
15 feet after slamming onto
the ground.
“My helpers came running
over to help me up, but I
couldn’t walk without assis
tance,” Harpster said.
After additional inspection
of the wagon, which he had
borrowed from a neighbor, he
found the gravity box actual
ly tipped off of the wagon
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chassis. The two rear brack
ets holding the gravity box to
the chassis were not fas-
tened, and the right front
bracket had been cracked,
welded, and had broken
again. The left front bracket
was fastened, but had bent
when the wagon went over.
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Harpster said.
After this incident,
Harpster said he changed
and repaired the brackets on
this wagon and on his own
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secured the gravity wagons to
the chassis with heavy safety
chains.
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seriously injured. He sutiered
a cracked pelvis and was on
crutches for two weeks, but
he has since fully recovered.
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his 12-year-old son, who had
been in the wagon just a
short time before, was not
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have just recently used it, you
should always inspect the
equipment for potential haz
ards and wear.
Wagon brackets are not
something that you may
automatically think of as
potentially hazardous if they
fail, but Larry Harpster can
tell you otherwise.
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