I googled the mornville combine accident...
WCB now requires buddy system and a two hour check on workers.
It is very obvious... why we need a buddy on call... cause you never know when an accident will happen. Cell phone are a big part of worker safety in 2010!
Some on our farm thing I am overcautious... I do not believe I am.
Dad was cleaning a corner post hole out 10 years ago... fell in head first and Mom found him!
Safety FIRST. No matter how old you think you are! Age is a state of mind!!!
" Farmer, 82, survives 20 hours trapped in combine
By Ryan Cormier and Mariam Ibrahim, edmontonjournal.com September 19, 2010 7:22 AM •Story•Photos ( 1 )
Man recovering in hospital with unknown injuries after getting his legs caught in a combine near Morinville, north of Edmonton.Photograph by: Screengrab, Google MapsEDMONTON — An elderly man is recovering in hospital Saturday after being trapped upside down for 20 hours in a combine near Morinville.
Raymond Como, 82, was discovered at approximately 8:30 a.m. by his son-in-law, Barry Flynn, after he fell from the machine and became trapped early Friday afternoon.
Flynn had called Como on Friday evening, but assumed he was playing cribbage at his neighbours when he didn't answer. When he called again Saturday morning, there still was no answer.
"Then there was something wrong," said Frank Comeau, a neighbour and cousin of Como. "Everyone knows Raymond is always home that time in the morning, having a cigarette and a coff ee."
When Flynn reached the Morinville-area farm, where Como lives alone, he saw that there were no vehicles missing, and there was coffee on in the house, though that turned out to be from the day before.
Flynn hollered for him in the farmyard, then heard a faint groan from the 12-foot-high red Massey Ferguson combine parked nearby. He rushed over, and found his father-in-law wedged upside down between the engine and the cab.
"He was in and out of consciousness when I found him," Flynn said. "He asked me to get him out of there. I could barely see him because most of him was behind the motor."
Flynn called an ambulance, though eventually the Morinville Fire Department had to come to extricate the hypothermic Como with the Jaws of Life, 20 hours after he became trapped.
"He had climbed up to service his combine and he slipped and fell in between the engine and the cab, head first," said Morinville Fire Chief Ron Cust. "He wedged himself between the pulleys and some piping."
Firefighters arrived on the scene at around 10 a.m. and began carefully dismantling a portion of the machine. Como had fallen roughly four feet into the machine. "It was a lengthy extrication, a lot longer than normal," Cust said of the hour-long process. "All of their work would have been up high ... this kind of rescue would have been a tricky rescue."
STARS air ambulance was called to the farm, near Highway 44 and Highway 642, to fly Como to the University of Alberta Hospital.
"He's not out of the woods yet," Flynn said Saturday night.
"He's still at the intensive care unit. His body temperature went down quite a bit, and his kidneys aren't doing so well right now."
Como became trapped Friday afternoon, and was wearing clothing only sufficiently warm for daytime temperatures. He did not have a cellphone.
"It was around five or six below out here last night, with a breeze," Comeau said. "He was out all night, and is still alive, if you can believe that. if I had fallen in there, I would not have woken up, I'll tell you that. Raymond is one tough guy. If he's out of hospital this week, I'll bet he's in the fields taking his crop off."
If not, Comeau said local farmers will likely chip in to harvest Como's 320 acres.
Neighbour Shirley Comeau was shocked to hear of the ordeal. Como was the master of ceremonies at her wedding, and is well liked in the community, she said. "People really got to know him because he made the ice at the curling rink in Morinville for years and years."
Como recently accepted an award from Sturgeon County as a member of a family that has been homesteading in the area for more than a century.
"He got up and sang a song when he went up for his award," remembers Comeau. "He sang Al Jolson's Rock-a-bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody and he got a standing ovation."
With files from Chris Zdeb.
rcormier@edmontonjournal.com
Read more: http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/recovering after combine accident near Morinville/3545283/story.html?cid=megadrop_story#ixzz0zz9BHC5w"
WCB now requires buddy system and a two hour check on workers.
It is very obvious... why we need a buddy on call... cause you never know when an accident will happen. Cell phone are a big part of worker safety in 2010!
Some on our farm thing I am overcautious... I do not believe I am.
Dad was cleaning a corner post hole out 10 years ago... fell in head first and Mom found him!
Safety FIRST. No matter how old you think you are! Age is a state of mind!!!
" Farmer, 82, survives 20 hours trapped in combine
By Ryan Cormier and Mariam Ibrahim, edmontonjournal.com September 19, 2010 7:22 AM •Story•Photos ( 1 )
Man recovering in hospital with unknown injuries after getting his legs caught in a combine near Morinville, north of Edmonton.Photograph by: Screengrab, Google MapsEDMONTON — An elderly man is recovering in hospital Saturday after being trapped upside down for 20 hours in a combine near Morinville.
Raymond Como, 82, was discovered at approximately 8:30 a.m. by his son-in-law, Barry Flynn, after he fell from the machine and became trapped early Friday afternoon.
Flynn had called Como on Friday evening, but assumed he was playing cribbage at his neighbours when he didn't answer. When he called again Saturday morning, there still was no answer.
"Then there was something wrong," said Frank Comeau, a neighbour and cousin of Como. "Everyone knows Raymond is always home that time in the morning, having a cigarette and a coff ee."
When Flynn reached the Morinville-area farm, where Como lives alone, he saw that there were no vehicles missing, and there was coffee on in the house, though that turned out to be from the day before.
Flynn hollered for him in the farmyard, then heard a faint groan from the 12-foot-high red Massey Ferguson combine parked nearby. He rushed over, and found his father-in-law wedged upside down between the engine and the cab.
"He was in and out of consciousness when I found him," Flynn said. "He asked me to get him out of there. I could barely see him because most of him was behind the motor."
Flynn called an ambulance, though eventually the Morinville Fire Department had to come to extricate the hypothermic Como with the Jaws of Life, 20 hours after he became trapped.
"He had climbed up to service his combine and he slipped and fell in between the engine and the cab, head first," said Morinville Fire Chief Ron Cust. "He wedged himself between the pulleys and some piping."
Firefighters arrived on the scene at around 10 a.m. and began carefully dismantling a portion of the machine. Como had fallen roughly four feet into the machine. "It was a lengthy extrication, a lot longer than normal," Cust said of the hour-long process. "All of their work would have been up high ... this kind of rescue would have been a tricky rescue."
STARS air ambulance was called to the farm, near Highway 44 and Highway 642, to fly Como to the University of Alberta Hospital.
"He's not out of the woods yet," Flynn said Saturday night.
"He's still at the intensive care unit. His body temperature went down quite a bit, and his kidneys aren't doing so well right now."
Como became trapped Friday afternoon, and was wearing clothing only sufficiently warm for daytime temperatures. He did not have a cellphone.
"It was around five or six below out here last night, with a breeze," Comeau said. "He was out all night, and is still alive, if you can believe that. if I had fallen in there, I would not have woken up, I'll tell you that. Raymond is one tough guy. If he's out of hospital this week, I'll bet he's in the fields taking his crop off."
If not, Comeau said local farmers will likely chip in to harvest Como's 320 acres.
Neighbour Shirley Comeau was shocked to hear of the ordeal. Como was the master of ceremonies at her wedding, and is well liked in the community, she said. "People really got to know him because he made the ice at the curling rink in Morinville for years and years."
Como recently accepted an award from Sturgeon County as a member of a family that has been homesteading in the area for more than a century.
"He got up and sang a song when he went up for his award," remembers Comeau. "He sang Al Jolson's Rock-a-bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody and he got a standing ovation."
With files from Chris Zdeb.
rcormier@edmontonjournal.com
Read more: http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/recovering after combine accident near Morinville/3545283/story.html?cid=megadrop_story#ixzz0zz9BHC5w"
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