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NW Iowa. / SW Arizona | I got a call from a good friend today & said he was involved in a farm accident after dinner today. This guy is a retired deputy sheriff that works part time for a farmer part of the year. They were harvesting corn & the corn head had some stuck corn stocks in one of the corn rows. The combine operator was engaging the corn head in & out of reverse trying to un-stick it when my friend reached in to grab the stuck stocks & has he grabbed the stock it broke loose & it sucked his hand into the stock rollers. Luckily the operator shut if off right away. They got him out of the rollers & took him to the local emergency room. Luckily he only suffered some cuts & severe bruising with no broken bones.
I told him he wasn't lucky to have this happen to him but he was very lucky man it could have been alot worse. I told him my dad had 1/2 of his pointer finger taken off from a snapping roller when he was a young man & I knew of a man not far from me that lost his arm 1/2 way up to his elbow the same way.
I never get within two feet of the gathering chains running on a corn head. Every time I'd get close to one I would think of my dad & neighbors accidents. Now I have one more to think about.
BE CAREFULL out there guys!
Edited by IOWAMARK 9/22/2010 22:11
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A very lucky man (snapping roller accident)
