Scott: Flywheel burn
From: Helen Murphy-Robinson
Series: Agriculture Safety StoryCorps
Length: 01:39
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“I’ve learned you have to be very cautious on a farm with kids and machinery.”
Scott Furrer [FUR], dairy farmer, describes how shook up he was when his son Chris as a young child got his hand caught between a flywheel and shield burning off the top of his fingers.
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“I’ve learned you have to be very cautious on a farm with kids and machinery.”
Scott Furrer [FUR], dairy farmer, describes how shook up he was when his son Chris as a young child got his hand caught between a flywheel and shield burning off the top of his fingers.
Transcript
The farm comes of course with inherent hazards. One of your earliest
experiences, I’m not sure you remember this but it’s very vivid in my memory
because it scared me right off. We were new to the farm, I’m guessing you were
probably 3, 4 years of age. We were putting up hay, and I was baling that day. I
remember I had gotten off the tractor, and I walked back toward the baler and
you were running and your mom was behind you and I had kind of laid my hand
on the fly wheel and just let my hand slide over the fly wheel. You came running
up. I noticed you looking at the flywheel and you immediately reached out with
your hand and it kind of sucked your hand down between the flywheel and the
shield, and then it just burnt the top of your finger off from the friction. I was very
worried and we ended up taking you to the hospital to make sure everything was
ok and I was worried that...
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