SC ROPS is a joint project between Clemson University and South Carolina State University in conjunction with a continuing project at the University of Kentucky. Provide information pertaining to tractor rollovers and prevention to educate and increase awareness of tractor safety issues. Promote equipping tractors that do not have ROPS with ROPS or retrofitting older tractors that originally did not have a ROPS with a ROPS retrofit. Promote the safe use of ROPS on tractors.
Agricultural fatalities make agriculture one of the deadliest industries in the United States.
The most dangerous piece of equipment on the farm is the tractor. More than thirty-five people have been killed in South Carolina in the past ten years while operating a tractor. Promoting the use of ROPS and retrofitting tractors without ROPS can lead to safer farm operations and eliminate these needless fatalities.