“I’d heard stories in the military about landmine victims still feeling like they had limbs… so I resolved to feel my way down my leg to determine how badly I was hurt.” Brad Guse looks back, explaining how he ended up with his foot and leg caught in an operating silage blower, a fateful incident that primed his advocacy for farm safety. Read Story
A bolting bovine and broken bones. Susan Littlefield tells her story about her son’s advice and an injury that was more serious than she realized, yet could have been much, much worse. Read Story
Jerry and Julie Nelson look back 30 years to the unforgettable summer day he “should have died.” He was doing something he’d done hundreds of times before on his family’s dairy farm – fixing a clog in a manure pump. Read Story
Leon Sheets was engulfed in a flash fire that left 20% of his body with second- and third-degree burns. He was pressure washing in his confinement building when an electric spark ignited methane gas released from foaming manure. Read Story
“Live today like you are going to die tomorrow, but farm today like you are going to farm forever.” Mike Biadasz loved farming. Read Story
“The doctor .. said ‘I remember that; it was talked about, it was used as a learning opportunity for the medical community.’ Because it is so rare, you don’t hear about this happening. If you do, you hear it because somebody died; it’s not because somebody lived. And that is with me every, every single day: that he could have died; he could not be here.” Read Story
When the ATV tipped, he knew the outcome would be bad. He heard his thigh bone snap when 700 pounds of equipment rolled over him. Read Story
Brian Egel is a farm safety advocate. At age 8, his left arm was entangled in the auger of a grinder-mixer, resulting in amputation below the shoulder. Read Story
“Many eyes make less fools.” – Rick Friday Friday took a risk while working alone that he wouldn’t have done if someone was watching. Read Story
Taking a shortcut when you know it’s not safe. I did it, and I paid a price. Why do we do it? Read Story