03-26-2004, 11:20 PM
Farming and ranching is really quite dangerous. I really never realized that growing up. I knew quite a few kids who were maimed by equipment, and abused by large animals. Then, there were the other dangerous toys, like shotguns, rifles, snowmobiles, dirt bikes, etc. Only one kid I knew died from a farm related accident, though. He was like 15 or 16 and using his dads backhoe to dig a 2 meter deep trench for an underground pipe. Something fell in the hole, so he jumped down to get it out and the trench collapsed and buried him. Many more (about 10, as I recall) kids I knew died from automobile accidents or drugs, from when I was 16 to 24 years old.