Tractor Rollover Accidents

With new equipment of safety, even with innovative advancements, farming remains to be among the most dangerous occupations in the United States.

Across the nation, every year, over 100,000 men and women sustain catastrophic farm injuries, which include tractor rollover accidents with approximately 1,300 estimated in death.

These accidents, oftentimes, and other injuries sustained on a farm could be preventable if manufacturers of equipment or operators of tractors had taken appropriate precautions and measures of safety.

Farming tractors have been instrumental as components to increase the farming output by controlling costs and maximizing efficiency.

Operating a farm tractor, even so, can tend to be extremely hazardous where catastrophic injuries and fatalities in recent years have become excessive.

Among the key factors of fatalities among farmers on the worksite are tractor overturns; every year, they take the lives of almost 100 victims.

Tractor rollover accidents are bound to happen namely when tractors leaning over on an embankment or a hill make a tight turn.

The tractor operator, in several situations, doesn’t adjust, before navigating a turn, the vehicle’s speed.

The tractor rollover, often times, is caused by the vehicle being operated while the driver is drowsy, fatigued, or impaired by drugs or alcohol.

Other times, still, the operator becomes distracted by consuming food, talking on the phone, or texting.

Tractor rollover accidents are not always the result of negligence by the operator.

In fact, when the tractor is not equipped properly with a protective rollover protection structure, which entails roll bars and seat belts, the operator becomes at-risk.

While the rollover protection structure hardly prevents rollovers, this has proved to be immensely effective at offering protection of passengers and operators on tractors in the case where a vehicle does roll over.

This is due to the fact the design eliminates any tractor overturn at a greater than 90 degree angle.

Farms that implement the use of rollover protection structure have diminished death rates to less than one percent.

Through the mandate of using protective seat belts, from a zone of protection which offers a safe boundary, the operator cannot be tossed from the tractor.

Any farm that doesn’t utilize this system can be held liable for negligence when farm workers sustain injuries in an accident by a tractor rollover.

Hiring a lawyer is advisable if you want to obtain compensation successfully in a claim or lawsuit for a tractor rollover accident.

This is due to insurance companies providing coverage to manufacturers of farm equipment hiring high-powered, gung-ho lawyers with experience in finding loopholes to keep at a minimum any settlement amount paid out on claims for personal injury.

These lawyers, in a number of incidences, bully the victims into accepting offers of settlement in a far less amount that the lawsuit’s value.

You may have sustained severe injuries or a family member may have died in a tractor rollover. You have the legal right to pursue compensation for the sustained injuries.

Contact us for a free consultation or call Anzalone Law Firm PLLC, at: 603.548.3797.