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lay awake perhaps half the night. The morning had gone badlyhis truck had a flat tire, the tractor wouldn’t start, and he was in a bad mental mood. He had gotten up tired and jittery and was so pre-occupied thinking about what he’d tell Brown about his destructive cattle that he simply wasn’t paying much attention to his job. His reflexes were much slower than usual. An accident stage had been set--a tired, angry pre-occupied man, a powerful tractor and a potentially dangerous machine. Then, suddenly, a bad clog angered him further. Without thinking, he jumped off his tractor, without turning off the power, and attacked the mass of stalks and weeds. Suddenly, he was* minus an arm!
The AMA says the moral is that no such accident is simple. Generally there are many things that contribute to it. Far too often there are many such '‘human” factors behind farm accidents. Some contributing factors are: fatiguej working while sleepy, or while taking strong medicines.
The farmer should take brief breaks during the day, if necessary, to prevent fatigue. Anger, emotional upsets, being “down in the dumps”, grie^ worry, tension--these can set the stage for accidents in any profession.
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