Victims of tractor accessory accidents often suffer serious injuries or death. If you or a loved one has been injured in an accident as the result of farm equipment, tractor accessory attorney John Gehlhausen wants to talk to you. Offices located in Lamar, Colorado.
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John Gehlhausen, P.C.
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Lamar, Colorado 81052
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Tractor accessory accident attorney John Gehlhausen represents victims of tractor accessory accidents, including hay baler accidents, front-end loader accidents, and auger accident cases in Colorado and throughout the United States.
Hay balers are farm tractor accessories that pack and tie hay into bundles (bales) for easy handling and shipping. Hay balers pose a serious risk of injury or death to anyone who operates them. In fact, hay baler accidents account for a large percentage of the reported machine-related injuries on farms, according to the National Safety Council.
Hay baler accidents can take several forms, including being pulled into the machine when attempting to thread the baler, being trapped by moving parts, or being entangled by improperly guarded power take off shafts. Hay baler accidents can also occur if the operator falls from the tractor and is run over by the trailing baler. Many of these injuries could be prevented by proper machinery design by either designing out foreseeable hazards or by guarding against those hazards that cannot be removed by reasonable machinery design.
Manufacturers also have a responsibility to ensure balers are guarded in the front, side, and rear to prevent contact with any dangerous parts while the machine is in motion.
Victims of hay baler accidents often suffer traumatic injuries that can cause permanent disability. Hay baler accidents cause lacerations, amputations, puncture wounds, fractures, and, in severe cases, death. In addition, many traumas produced by hay baler accidents require some form of amputation. If you or a loved one has been injured in a hay baler accident, tractor accessory accident attorney John Gehlhausen wants to talk to you.
Augers are used to raise grain from the ground to the top of grain bins. Augers save farmers time and energy by moving grain quickly and efficiently, but they are a major source of injury on the farm.
Auger accident-related injuries can result from several things, including entanglement and electrocution. Entanglement accidents occur when the operator comes in contact with moving or spinning parts, including PTO drive shafts, belt drives, cranks, and auger screws. An auger accident that involves entanglement can cause injuries such as amputation, lacerations, and broken bones. Operators are not the only ones at risk of being injured in an auger accident. According to the National Safety Council (NSC), entanglements with grain augers are the most common type of trauma encountered by children on farms or ranches. If an auger is moved in an elevated position and comes in contact with power lines, lacerations, fractures, amputations, or death may occur as a result of electrocution.
Many auger accident injuries and deaths could be prevented with safe working habits and properly designed machinery. Manufacturers must make sure that they provide machinery designed to protect from foreseeable hazards and misuses by designing out or guarding against hazards when it is economically and technologically feasible to do so. Only if this cannot be done should adequate warnings be used as a safety device. If you or a family member has been injured in an auger accident because of faulty or defective equipment, contact tractor accessory attorney John Gehlhausen in Colorado today. He will aggressively seek justice on your behalf based on truth and recognized principles of machinery design safety.
Farmers and others use front-end loaders to lift and move large, heavy objects and materials such as hay bales or machine parts. Front-end loaders are extremely dangerous when manufacturers allow them to be sold by their dealers for use on tractors lacking falling object protection. In addition, a front-end loader is the implement most frequently attached to tractors involved in rollovers.
Perhaps the most damaging front-end loader accidents occurring since 1975 happen when round hay bales fall from a raised loader onto the operator. These front-end loader accidents frequently cause paralysis or death. Large hay bales can weigh as much as 2,000 pounds - that’s as much as a small car! Imagine what it would feel like to have a small car come tumbling down on top of you, and you will understand the seriousness of these types of front-end loader accidents. These accidents can happen when poorly located controls are accidentally activated as the operator is looking in another direction. No front-end loader should ever be sold for a tractor without falling object protection. If one of these accidents happens to you or a loved one, call John Gehlhausen.
Tractor and tractor accessory accidents can be extremely dangerous and common. They frequently could have been avoided had the manufacturer included safety devices on the machine as standard equipment. Hay baler accidents, front-end loader accidents, and auger accidents can cause debilitating injury and death to operators. Some injuries that result from these accidents prevent farmers from returning to work, causing a large financial burden on the farmer and his family. Persons injured in accidents may be entitled to compensation if defective machinery caused their accident. John Gehlhausen has experience helping these persons and their families receive the compensation that they deserve in these types of cases. Let him focus on your case so you can focus on recovery. Contact tractor accessory accident attorney John Gehlhausen at his Colorado office today to discuss your case.