MORGAN, Minn.-Ruth Meirick was like most members of most farm families: There was too much work to do to worry about safety. Then, "it just happened." Her brother-in-law was moving a bale of hay and ...
LACKAWANNA COUNTY, Pa. — Jim Schirg has been working with heavy equipment on his farm in West Abington Township near Dalton for more than 50 years. For him, driving the tractor is just part of his ...
In an instant, Fred Levendofsky knows his life could have been changed forever. Thirty years ago, the Belleville man was a young farmer and father with two small children. On one particular day, he ...
Kids who grow up on farms almost live in a different world than their non-farm schoolmates. “Chores” for the young town resident might be mowing lawn or taking out the garbage. For the young farm ...
A farmer driving a tractor to the Farm Progress Show on a two-lane road, with two wheels off the shoulder while towing a 17.5 ...
A memorial in Illinois is hoping to remind drivers to share the road with slow-moving farm equipment. Farm tractors are supposed to be used in the field, but sometimes farmers take their tractors on ...
Tractor accidents, grain entrapment and injuries from ornery livestock are just some of the dangers agricultural workers face every day. In fact, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and ...
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Farm equipment accidents pose one of the biggest threats in America’s most dangerous industries. The numbers are shocking – one in 10 tractor operators will flip their vehicle during ...
Two tractor-vehicle accidents within hours of each other left two men injured and law enforcement personal busy. The first accident happened at 10:45 a.m. at the intersection of USH 14/61 in the city ...
MELROSE, Minn. -- Three Minnesota dairy producers have been injured in separate accidents all within weeks of each other. Sam Salzl of Melrose, Michael Sonnek of Foreston and Gene Bisek of Mahnomen ...