Death by Strangulation A cattle farmer died from strangulation that resulted when his loose clothing caught in the rotating shaft of a conveyor belt. The fatality occurred while the 53-year-old victim was in the feed shed adding cracked corn to ground corn that was then taken by conveyor belt to the outside feed bunk and a herd of 182 beef cattle. The conveyors and controls in the shed were set up in a way that required the farmer to crouch down and crawl under the feed bunk conveyor several times during each feeding cycle. It was while ducking under the three-foot-high conveyor that […]
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