PTO shaft death

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Posted by Tony n va on September 09, 2007 at 00:35:48 [URL] [DELETE] :

This was posted on another board that my wife reads..copied here for
a reminder to all of us.
DAYTON, Va. (AP) - A family is in mourning after a 15-year-old boy was killed in a farm accident just minutes from the dairy farm where a family of four and a farm hand died in an accident earlier this summer.

Eric James Koogler of Harrisonburg, Va. died shortly before 4 p.m. Monday after police say a piece of farm equipment snapped off a tractor and struck the boy in the torso. Authorities say the youth suffered internal injuries.

Witnesses say Koogler and other farm workers were lining up a tractor and a wagon to unload chopped corn into a silo. That's when a 4-foot-long power shaft connecting the tractor to an auger, came detached from the tractor and hit Koogler. An auger is a long metal tube that moves material. Police are calling it a freak accident.

Dayton is just a few minutes from Bridgewater where, in July, exposure to fumes killed four family members and a farmhand. In that case, a farmer succumbed to fumes while in a manure pit. His family and the farm worker succumbed after trying to rescue him.

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Re: PTO shaft death - Rockbiter 23:18:03 09/24/07 (2)
- Re: PTO shaft death - Lee Clark 00:33:26 10/30/07 (1)
  - Re: PTO shaft death - Rockbiter 13:32:45 10/30/07 (0)

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