A 27-year-old farmer was pulling a picking machine through a cornfield with a tractor. Rollers grabbed the corn stalks and stripped off the ears. The ears then moved toward a set of husking rollers, which operated like an old-fashioned clothes wringer, squeezing the husks off the corn and sending the corn into a towed wagon. The farmer noticed a problem. He stopped the tractor but left the engine running, without disengaging the power take-off that ran the corn husker. Then he reached into the husking roller area to clear some jammed cornstalks. His coat sleeve caught between two rollers. He tried to […]
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