1998 Alberta Farm Fatalities

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Total farm related fatalities: 26

Date	Sex	Age	Agent/Activity	Cause
January 18	M	50	Fell from Ladder	Head Injury
March 15	M	3	Got feet stuck in mud	Hypothermia
April 14	M	77	Kick by a cow	Chest Trauma
April 16	M	43	Tractor tipped off ramp	Head injury
May 14	M	71	Trapped under machinery	Abdominal injury
July 1	M	45	Fell 8' from Conveyor Belt	Landed on concrete pad
July 8	M	21	Hit by metal bit	Penetrating injury on neck
July 22	M	44	Fell from tractor fender in front of rear wheel	Fracture Base of Skull
July 24	M	35	Massive Trauma	Was waterproofing inside a reservoir and it exploded
July 30	M	63	Crush asphyxia	Pinned under tractor roll over
August 3	M	69	Crushed Chest	Feeder table collapsed on him
August 11	M	78	Carbon Monoxide Poisoning	Found in cab of swather
August 20	M	8	Suffocation	Fell in grain hopper
August 20	M	11	Suffocation	Fell in grain hopper
August 30	M	63	Crushed chest & neck	Tractor flipped on him
September 9	M	8	Massive Head Trauma	Crushed under tractor wheels
September 22	F	22 mo.	Massive Head Trauma	Run over by family van
September 26	M	61	Blunt Chest Injuries	Fall from 3-wheel vehicle
September 24	M	83	Multiple Blunt injuries	Feel in front of truck wheel
October 28	M	69	Drown	Slipped and fell in water
October 28	M	3	Blunt Cranial Cervical Trauma	Run over by 1 ton truck
November	M	18	Crushed	Pinned by Tractor Bucket
December 21	M	44	Multiple injuries	Pinned between tractor and farm implement
December 9	F	43	Head Injury	Hit by wrench
December	M		Drown	Suffocation in Manure Pit
December				Roll Over

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This information published to the web on June 4, 2003.
Last Reviewed/Revised on October 24, 2017.