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WITH bountiful grain harvests in 

 1948, Illinois farmers also har- 

 vested their regular heavy harvest 

 of accidents. The farm is still a 

 dangerous place to live. Here 

 are some of the more freakish accidents 

 that happened on Illinois farms in 19i8. 

 Be careful. Accidents like these can hap- 

 pen to you I 



Trying to enter his home through a 

 window, an Oregon farmer was trapped 

 when the sash fell on his back and caused 

 him to smother to death. Fighting off a 

 swarm of bees, a Farmer City young man 

 swung at them with a knife and gashed 

 himself. 



In another accident involving bees, a 

 Greenup man tried to smoke them out of 

 his house. Throwing kerosene on some 

 old sacks the fuel exploded and burned 

 him to death. 



A Sterling boy shot at a rat; the bullet 

 ricocheted and killed his father. A Rob- 

 inson boy killed his brother when he shot 

 at a rabbit. The bullet glanced off a stone 

 and struck the youth. 



A Dakota, 111., farmer was leaning on 

 his front gate when a hinge broke. He 

 was thrown against the head of a calf and 

 suffered a fractured check bone. While 

 sharpening implements on a grindstone, 

 the stone shattered and killed an Avon 

 farmer. A Long Point man broke his 

 arm when he pushed on a stuck gate. 



Running from a swarm of bees a Mt. 

 Auburn youth fell on a sharp stick which 

 ripped open his leg. A Buffalo youth 

 broke a leg and badly injured himself 

 when he fell into an operating concrete 

 mixer. A LaHarpe farmer had his eye- 

 ball cut when the cow he was milking 

 flicked her tail. An Eldorado boy had his 

 eyeball cut by a corn stalk leaf. A Don- 

 gola man absent-mindedly stuffed r^vo of 

 his fingers into a meat grinder. 



A Joliet man had a thumb torn off 

 while storing baled hay. The rope hoist 

 powered by a tractor pulled him up to the 

 top of the barn by the thumb. A Wash- 

 ington Grove man did the same thing but 

 was hoisted up by the hand and was not 

 seriously injured. 



FEBRUARY. 1949 



A Peru man was milking a cow when 

 It moved away from him; as he pulled his 

 stool closer the cow moved back knocking 

 him against a hinge which injured his 

 spine. A Caseyville young man. believed 

 to have spotted a fox, grabbed a shotgun 

 from a shelf. The weapon exploded and 

 killed him. A Ramsey woman's arm was 

 broken when a calf she was feeding 

 pushed her against a post. 



A Cabery farmer drove his tractor over 

 a bridge which collapsed throwing tractor 

 and rider into a creek. He was only 

 slightly injured. A veteran working on a 

 farm wasn't so lucky. While disking a 

 field his tractor slipped into a drainage 

 ditch, turned over, and pinned him be- 

 neath the water until he drowned. A 

 Chester baby was bitten to death by a rat. 



A Mt. Carbon woman placing a fruit 

 jar over a plant to protect it from freezing 

 pushed too hard and broke the glass. Her 

 hand was impaled on a jagged edge. She 

 was in a serious condition from loss ot 

 blood. Working with a circular saw. i 

 Galena man got his jacket caught in tl.c 

 shaft. He wrenched his body away from 

 the saw but his foot flew up into the Made 

 which cut off four toes. 



A five-year-old Roseville boy followed 

 his dad out to the barn and wa'. hit by a 

 bale of hay tossed down from a hayloft 

 by the father unknowingly. The bov 

 didn't suffer a broken neck or a broken 

 collar bone: his leg was fracture i. 



Tractors cause a great many of 'he acci- 

 dents on Illinois farms. Here's one which 



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gave its driver trouble indirectly. A St. 

 Charles youth drove to a windmill to get 

 water. On driving off, the tractor ex- 

 haust caught a support bar on the wind- 

 mill causing it to topple and crash on top 

 ot tractor and drner. The boy was criti- 

 cally injured. 



A Rochelle boy was badly cut in the 

 face when he ran into the blade of an ax. 

 A Rockford farm hand slipf)ed while put- 

 ting a can of milk in a cooling tank. He 

 apparently fell, struck his head, and was 

 knocked unconscious. He was found 

 drowned in the cooling tank. 



And there still are buggy accidents. A 

 Round Lake man jumped when his buggy 

 started to upset. He sprained his ankle 

 and was unable to walk. A young Ran- 

 dolph farmer was badly burned in trying 

 to burn out some coons in a hollow tree. 

 He threw gasoline which flashed back. 



A Toluca woman fell through a gap in 

 the closet lloor of her uncompleted home, 

 ~as stunned by the fall and drowned in 

 her llooded cellar. A one-year-old Ed- 

 wardsvilk- baby playing around a partly- 

 filled bucket of water, fell in head first 

 and drowned. A Maple Park youth nar- 

 rowly escaped death when silage caved in 

 on him. Luckily his father was nearby to 

 dig him out. 



A Milford man was severely burned 

 when he fell into a vat of scalding water 

 while preparing to butcher. A Kane 

 jlairyman broke his wrist when a cow 

 kicked him. A 31 -year-old Kankakee 

 farmer was cranking his tractor when the 

 crank slipped and struck him on the side 

 of the head. When the accident was re- 

 ported he was in serious condition suffer- 

 ing a blood clot in the brain. 



Clearing timberl.md near Plymouth, a 

 farmer was seriously injured when a chain 

 fastened around a tree broke under ten- 

 sion and struck him a severe blow across 

 the stomach. 



A Ridott man was badly burned when 

 the tractor he was driving burst into 

 flames and sprayed gasoline on him. A 

 Hookdale man suffered a broken vertebra 

 when a plow handle struck him in the 

 back. 



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