Farm Automated Devices Safety

Background

• Farm automated devices potential can injure—even kill—people when they came on automatically.

Tips

• If you're going to work on some automatic equipment, be sure to disconnect all power to prevent it from coming on.

Automatic Devices

Automated machinery has truly revolutionized agriculture. Some of these automatic devices have also injured and killed people when they came on automatically. A person was injured while cleaning a grain dryer when it automatically turned on. Another person was killed in a grain bin when the automatic unloader started working. If you are going to work on some automatic equipment, be sure to disconnect all power to prevent it from coming on.