TY  - JOUR
T1  - Causal Factors in Thresher Accidents in Turkey
TT  - Causal Factors in Thresher Accidents in Turkey
AU  - Şekerli, Yunus
AU  - Keskin, Muharrem
PY  - 2018
DA  - June
JF  - Mustafa Kemal Üniversitesi Ziraat Fakültesi Dergisi
PB  - Hatay Mustafa Kemal Üniversitesi
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 1300-9362
SP  - 76
EP  - 84
VL  - 23
IS  - 1
LA  - en
AB  - Farmmachinery offers many benefits for the farmers; however, they present importantoccupational safety concerns when they are not designed and used safely.Previous studies in Turkey concentrated on accidents of farm tractors andgeneral farm machinery. No study was available on thresher accidents whichcause significant number of casualties and injuries in Turkey. Hence, the aimof this study was to investigate the thresher accidents to determine maincausal factors towards reducing the accidents, fatalities, injuries andmonetary losses. Data on thresher accidents were collected based on accidentnews stories. A total of 103 thresher accidents were identified between 2002and 2017 of which 90 were on-field and 13 were on-road incidents. It wasobserved that fatality rate was very high at about 39.6%. Accidents were higherin some regions such as Central Anatolia region (28.2%) and Black Sea region(25.2%). Majority of the accidents were in summer months (77.7%). Most of theon-field accidents occurred as entanglement of body parts (63.3%) to thresher’smoving parts followed by entanglement of clothes (16.6%) and fall into thresher(13.3%). The percentage of children with an age of less than 10 wasconsiderable (13.0%). Safer material intake and safer power transmissiondesigns are needed. Farmers need training on how to safely operate a thresherand how their clothing should be for safer work. Also, precautions are neededto distant children from work area of the threshers.
KW  - Agriculture
KW  - Machinery
KW  - Thresher
KW  - Safety
KW  - Accidents
KW  - Turkey
N2  - Tarım makineleri çiftçileriçin birçok yarar sunmaktadır ancak güvenli bir şekilde tasarlanmadıkları ve kullanılmadıklarızaman önemli iş güvenliği riskleri ortaya çıkmaktadır. Türkiye'de yapılmış olanmevcut çalışmalar, tarım traktörleri ve genel tarım makineleri kazalarınayoğunlaşmıştır. Türkiye'de önemli sayıda ölüm ve yaralanmaya neden olan patoz(sapdöver harman makinası) kazaları hakkında bir çalışmaya rastlanmamıştır. Buçalışmanın amacı; patoz kazalarında; kaza sayısı, ölüm, yaralanma ve maddikayıpları azaltmaya yönelik nedensel faktörleri incelemektir. Patoz kazalarıile ilgili veriler kaza haberlerine dayanılarak elde edilmiştir. 2002 ile 2017yılları arasında 90'ı arazide ve 13'ü yolda olmak üzere toplam 103 patoz kazasıtespit edilmiştir. Kazalarda ölüm oranının %39,6 gibi çok yüksek seviyedeolduğu görülmüştür. Kaza sayısı İç Anadolu Bölgesi (%28,2) ve Karadeniz Bölgesi(%25,2)’nde daha yüksektir. Kazaların büyük çoğunluğu (%77) yaz aylarındagerçekleşmiştir. Arazi kazalarının büyük çoğunluğu patozun hareketliparçalarına vücudun bir kısmını kaptırma (%63,3) şeklinde gerçekleşmiş ve bunugiysilerin kaptırılması (%16,6), patozun içerisine düşme (%13,3) takipetmiştir. Kazaya karışan 10 yaşından küçük çocukların oranı önemli seviyededir(%13). Daha güvenli ürün besleme girişi ve hareket aktarım sistemi tasarımıgereklidir. Çiftçiler daha güvenli patoz kullanımı ve daha güvenli çalışma içinnasıl giyinmeleri konusunda eğitilmelidir. Ayrıca çocukların patoz çalışmaalanından uzak tutulmaları için önlemler alınmalıdır.
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