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accidents.
Seventy-four percent of all mo\or-vehicle accident fatalities occurred on rural highways in 1959.
It is small wonder that the National Safety Council is anxious for farm residents to strive for safer roads and safer drivers. Only through success in these areas can rural accident rates be reduced.
In recent state studies, 11 per cent of all fatal accidents to rural residents (excluding motor-vehicles and tractors) involved farm machinery. 15 per cent of non-fatal farm accidents involved farm machinery, according to a - recent Indiana study’.
With the increased complexity of farm machinery, greater understanding of their safe handling and use must be the objective of every machinery operator. It is every one’s job to help bring about this understanding.
.After careful observation and examination of statistics on farm accidents, the local FFA Chapter has chosen several' prases of farm safety to bring to public attention.
Amputation by whirling blades and deaths from mower missiles prove that Power Mowers are Dangerous.
Stories of burned machinery and nearby buildings teach us that Safe Storage of Fuel is a Necessity.
Horrible accounts of accidents involving PTO Shafts and Belts and Pulleys should make us extremely careful when we are exposed to them.
Chain Saws are wonderful for trees and brush but terrible for legs and armsCt. It is up to each of us to see that we follow safe practices in every farm activity—at work, at. home, at play and on the highways. None
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