Updates from Marsha

Below are some recent child ag injury incidents. Thanks to Mike Pate for sharing the first incident:

• Boy, 3, rescued from 10-foot manure pit

http://6abc.com/boy-3-rescued-from-10-foot-manure-pit/3497175/?sf189915175=1

• Same incident:

Manure pit traps 3-year-old under barn in Pennsylvania — ‘kind of like a quicksand’

Sacramento Bee

911 calls reported a 3 year old male had fallen into a manure pit on a farm and was unable to get out. The Incident Commander (Deputy 33) advised…

• Electric fence sends 5 year old to the hospital:

http://www.butlereagle.com/article/20180517/NEWS12/705179870

•  Ireland incident:

17 year old dies in incident involving tractor

https://www.farminguk.com/news/17-year-old-man-dies-in-incident-involving-tractor_49366.html

•  Follow up article:

‘It’s one of those calls you never forget’: First responders welcome home boy after farm accident

Channel3000.com – WISC-TV3

He is back home in Livingston after a month-long stay in the hospital, recovering from near-deadly injuries in a farm accident, where he was trampled …

To review a growing national collection of news articles reporting injuries and fatalities, please visit www.AgInjuryNews.org