Wade: Blow from bale of hay
From: Helen Murphy-Robinson
Series: Agriculture Safety StoryCorps
Length: 02:55
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“Sometimes we get in a hurry and don’t think about what we’re doing and that’s when we get into trouble.”
Wade Wipperling [WIP-er-ling] tells aunt Else Kimball [EL-see KIM-buh-ll] how a stack of unstable bales of hay fell on his head, breaking his neck.
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“Sometimes we get in a hurry and don’t think about what we’re doing and that’s when we get into trouble.”
Wade Wipperling [WIP-er-ling] tells aunt Else Kimball [EL-see KIM-buh-ll] how a stack of unstable bales of hay fell on his head, breaking his neck.
Transcript
Else: I hear you had a bad accident on the farm.
Wade: I did. I did have an accident on the farm. I was warned many times by incidents, if
you will, with hay bales, which stack square hay bales in a big stack as we’d put
up hay in the summertime, and then I would feed out of them during the winter. I
thought I was always careful of pulling the hay off the top instead of off the
bottom. When you pull out of the bottom the stack would tip over. Well, careful
with that, I knew what I was doing. But I would use a farmhand and reach up on
top of the pile and just grab bales and pull them off the top and let them fall. Then
I would pick them up and put them on the front and go out and feed with it. Well,
this particular morning I drove up to the bale pile where I had pulled the bales off
the top the day before. I was just picking up the bales off the bottom that were
laying loose...
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