Extension Communications
3614 Administrative Services Building
Ames, Iowa 50011-3614
(515) 294-9915
9-1-00
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contacts:
Charles Schwab, agricultural and biosystems engineering,
(515) 294-6360; cvschwab@iastate.edu
Laura Miller, ISU Extension Safe Farm, (515) 294-6360,
lwmiller@iastate.edu
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Tractors Top Cause of 1999 Farm-Related Deaths
Nearly half of all farm deaths reported in Iowa last year involved a tractor. That's 24 Iowans who lost their lives while they were driving, riding or working around a tractor.
Those deaths all had one thing in common: they could have been prevented. Reduce your risks by operating tractors with rollover protection. Make sure everyone is trained, and never allow riders on a tractor. Make this year one to remember--for safety's sake.
This message is brought to you by Iowa State University Extension's Safe Farm program, helping to make Iowa farms a safer place to live and work.
(A print media version of this story also is available.)
Extension programs are available to all without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, or disability.