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the “rollover protection” device - simple steel bars in an H-shaped frame attached to the rear of the trac-tor - and an enclosed cab for the driver. The rollover frame helps prevent the driver from being pinned under the tractor when it overturns. The cab is a shield against engine noise (hearing loss can be a serious problem for fanners who use tractors), dust, and weather extremes. If the operator works in comfortable conditions, he or she is likely to feel less tired and stay alert longer.
The protective features are now built into most of the new tractors, especially the larger ones, and may also be added to older vehicles. But small farmers - those with less than 10 employees - are largely doing without these safeguards, partly because they are not forced by law to have them.
The United States has few regulations on,the use of farm machinery, it&Oike ntohy Other developed countries. (Sweden, for example, requires rollover frames and cabs on all farm tractors - and has only two or three farm fatalities a year.) Even the few U.S. laws have exempted small farmers from complying - and most farmers in Virginia fall into this category.
An even more important factor, however, is financial. The cost of a
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