He was a good friend and Lineman for 47 years and a safety instructor with perfect record and yet inexplicably he jacked up the front end of a 1100 pound tractor with a belly mower under a tree and tied it off with a nylon rope. While apparently clearing grass or something jammed under the mower the rope broke and it fell killing him instantly. I’m just speechless…
Sad day guys, an old friend was killed when his garden tractor fell on him
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Prayer for those effected, theres few words when bad things happen to good people. Sorry for your loss.
Guess it's time to update the safety briefing...
Sucks. Reminder to all that safety has to be a part of life and not just what you do at work.
Sucks. Reminder to all that safety has to be a part of life and not just what you do at work.
Thank you all for the show of support and sympathy expressed. Fortunately, for some of us we have done some dumb things and survived, and Gene (the deceased) would be the first to admit this was stupid. It is so out of character for him to work on a piece of equipment in this manner it defies everything I know about him.
We've had a lot of rain lately that has interfered with mowing. I know he was to attend a meeting / dinner that night and he was rushing to get the mowing done. This may have affected his judgement, we’ll never know.
Sometimes you don’t get a do over.
We've had a lot of rain lately that has interfered with mowing. I know he was to attend a meeting / dinner that night and he was rushing to get the mowing done. This may have affected his judgement, we’ll never know.
Sometimes you don’t get a do over.
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