SUNDAY JUNE 26 1949 Very humid again -- most uncomfortable. Too hot to go to church. Alice Schafer here for dinner. Lee Bill Catherine & Theo came back from a week in East Lansing. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1948 KANSAS FARM MORTALITY EXPERIENCE CAUSES OF 1949 FARM ACCIDENT DEATHS AND % OF TOTAL Classification Number Percent of Total total 62 100.0 Agricultural Machinery 26 41.9 Injury by animals 11 17.7 Falls 7 11.3 Vehicular accidents 4 6.5 Lightning 4 6.5 Burns 3 4.8 Drowning 3 4.8 Firearms 2 3.2 Airplane accidents 2 3.2 AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY In considerint the types of farm machinery fatalities the tractor appears by far the most hazardous of all farm machines. For many years over half the farm machinery deaths have been due to tractor accidents. In 1948 there 21 tractor fatalities which is 80%of the total of 26 argricultural mach- inery deaths and 34% of all farm fatalities. Of the 21 tractor fatalities 17 of 81% by the tractor overturning. Tractor overturning...............................17 Driving up steep slope..................5 Driving too near creek bank...........4 Driving through ditch.....................2 Driving down steep slope...............2 Hit depression..............................2 Driving too fast.............................1 Overturning, not stated...................1 KANSAS STATE BOARD OF HEALTH-DIVISION OF VITAL STASTICS

Creator

• Brown, Theophilus

Language

• English

Identifier

• MS02.01.29.195
• 1949_1_195

Keyword

• diary

Year

• 1949

Date created

• 1949-06-26

Related url

•  https://digital.wpi.edu/show/2n49t5074

Resource type

• Image

Source

• MS02.01.29.195.217

Last modified

• 2023-09-06