Machines | Farm Accident: Potato Harvester Crushes Worker's Leg

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1. Or just instead of letting a moron use the machine get a professional in
2. and 6 use your brain
3. also nice case
4. "worker 1 and worker 2" 😂
5. wow
6. it always training. They always use that as the reason to avoid such mistakes, how about NOT BEING A FCKING MORON. Dont take unnecessary risks.
7. Do not employ anyone that cannot read, write, speak English fluently. Farming is a dangerous business requiring allot of focus, attention, motivation and common sense. Employing anyone with anything less then those attributes will likely net grave results. As demonstrated by the video here. All accidents are preventable. No excuses period. Know your equipment and make sure every single safeguard is in place and working correctly. Better to take the time to check these things versus a serious or fatal injury.
   
   I love farming and the people doing it. Hate to see needless accidents. No excuses.........do it right the first time........EVERYTIME!!!!
   
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8. thank you very much
9. Jhon doe as in the coach that I had at hte
10. How can you check to even see if the rollers are turning if the gards are in place?
11. he should be sued
12. yes the owner was in the wrong here I am not saying he isn't but he never told the workers to climb on the machine if the worker had checked from a safe distance he could of still done it.
13. ok i would absolutely would not leave a half a million dollar piece of equipment with 2 cheap beaners .I say hey you lousy farmer ....... you suck ass
14. people rather take chances.
15. thanks captain hindsight
16. It's amazing how stupid people can be.
17. Come on now! I don't care what language the worker 1 & 2 spoke. Neither should have started the tractor and "then" turned the pto on and "then" walked across moving parts. Stupid mistakes but don't blame the farmer who did turn the machine off and never instructed them to do what they did. Sure, safety and training may have prevented this accident but I doubt it. It doesn't require much sense to stay away from heavy machinery that's moving and could deffinately chew someone up in a split second. Many many farmers that have operated and maintained their machines are fatally injured every year. All it takes is a split second of poor decision making which was obviously the case here. All the training in the world doesn't make stupid (not ignorance) any smarter. I don't care how ignorant worker 1 & 2 were to the equipment they obviously weren't blind and put themselves in a very stupid situation. Farmers are a dying bread because of people like the OP. Their earnings aren't enough for the risk (both monetary and physical) they take every year to pay for extensive training or to be baby sitters for the employees. They take huge risks every day/year hoping to put food on their families table but continuously bring in less profit year after year while providing the world with a means to survive.
    
    Rant over and quit blaming the owner of the farm who was generous enough to hire the non English speaking workers in the first place. An accident was lying in wait with these guys whether they were working for him or anyone else. Eventually stupid kills or comes close to it. 
18. thank you for this. When I am older and my father gives me the farm I will make my workers watch DVDs on farm safety :)
19. sounds like the supervisor and the company he works for are fucking idiots and culpable for attempted murder.
20. If you disconnect the PTO, you can't test the machine ... The worker shouldn't have been on top of the machine ... but it's the easiest way and you get a good overview ... and then you slip into the machine. Worker 2 should also have stayed in the tractor to stop it when something happens (could even be to prevent damage happening to the machine ... in this case, stop the machine from hurting the co-worker) 
    
    And there is always the factor "time is money". Everything has to go fast ... and that's when it happens ...