Kids Farm Safety Kids Farm Safety Kids learn best by example and parents must teach their ids to recognize hazards, evaluate the risks and to practice safety in work and play. Victims are usually extra riders and small children too close to the operating machinery. The extreme hazard of the PTO cannot be stressed enough. Grain trucks and pick-ups are the second highest cause in accidents involving machinery.
Youths riding in the back of trucks can fall out and be run over by the truck or trailing equipment.
Other hazards include balers, lawn mowers and rock pickers. Drowning Drowning in water or grain is an alarming problem Accidental drowning occurs in pre-school children with access to septic tanks, old wells, sloughs or other bodies of water. Suffocation Suffocation by grain is also an increasing problem. Large augers increase grain flow and small children can be submerged in only seconds. Kids should not be allowed to play in the back of grain trucks, whether the grain is flowing or not.