Here are some of the most common types of serious farm accidents and farm accident injuries:
Tractor overturn deaths. Each year approximately 100 U.S. farmers are killed when their tractor rolls over during use - and many more suffer serious injuries during tractor overturn incidents.
Farm structure falls. Many farmers and farm workers suffer serious injuries sustained in falls from farm equipment, grain bins, ladders, haymows, or other farm buildings. Others are struck by falling objects.
Farm machine entanglements. Farm workers can be seriously maimed, disfigured, or killed when they become caught in farming machinery such as augers or PTO shafts.
Suffocation accidents. Farm workers may become trapped in a grain bin or silo where they are suffocated. Others may become trapped in enclosed spaces that do not have proper oxygen levels or that are contaminated with silo gas or manure gas.