TY  - JOUR
T1  - An Evaluation of Combine Harvester Accidents in Turkey
TT  - Türkiye’de Yaşanan Biçerdöver Kazaları Üzerine Bir Değerlendirme
AU  - Keskin, Muharrem
AU  - Şekerli, Yunus Emre
PY  - 2018
DA  - December
JF  - Mustafa Kemal Üniversitesi Ziraat Fakültesi Dergisi
PB  - Hatay Mustafa Kemal Üniversitesi
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 1300-9362
SP  - 137
EP  - 147
VL  - 23
IS  - 2
LA  - en
AB  - There are over 17 000 combine harvesters in Turkeyharvesting over 10 million ha of cereal, corn, soybean and sunflower crops. Nostudy was found on combine harvester accidents in Turkey; thus, the aim of thisstudy was to examine the combine harvester accidents towards understanding anddecreasing the injuries, fatalities, and monetary losses. Accident data wereobtained based on accident news and included accident type, place (road, field,region, province), time (month, day), driver age and gender, etc. A total of194 accidents between 2002 and 2017 were studied. 116 of the incidents (59.8%)occurred on fields while 78 of them (40.2%) were on road traffic. The totalnumber of casualties were 228 (61 killed and 167 injured). Field accidents weremore fatal than the road accidents (25.0% vs. 9.0%). The most two commonincident types were fires (41.4%) and entanglement of body parts to machinery(25.9%) in field incidents while crash / collision (65.4%) and rollover (16.7%)in road incidents. Incidents were more frequent in Southeast Anatolian (25.9%)region and Central Anatolian (30.8%) region in field and road accidents,respectively. Both field (72.4%) and road (75.6%) accidents occurred dominantlyin summer months. In 65.5% of the field accidents and 91.4% of the roadaccidents, the victims were transferred to the hospitals by ambulances. Alloperators (100%) were male in both field and road incidents. As most accidentsare of human error, safety training and inspection are needed to reduce theincidents.
KW  - Agriculture
KW  - Machinery
KW  - Combine harvester
KW  - Safety
KW  - Accident
N2  - Türkiye’de10 milyon ha’dan fazla alanda tahıl, mısır, soya ve ayçiçeği hasadı yapan17000’inin üzerinde biçerdöver bulunmaktadır. Türkiye’de biçerdöverkazaları ile ilgili bir çalışma bulunamamıştır. Bu nedenle bu çalışmanın amacı,biçerdöver kazalarını; yaralanma, ölüm ve maddi kayıpları anlama ve azaltmayayönelik olarak incelemektir. Çalışma verileri kaza haberlerinden; kaza tipi (tarla,yol, bölge, il), zaman (ay, gün), operatör yaşı ve cinsiyeti gibi bilgileriiçerecek şekilde elde edilmiştir. 2002 ve 2017 yılları arasında gerçekleşmiştoplam 194 kaza incelenmiştir. Kazalardan 116’sı (%59.8) tarlada gerçekleşirken78’i (%40.2) yollarda meydana gelmiştir. Toplam kazazede sayısı 228 (61 ölü ve167 yaralı) olarak tespit edilmiştir. Yollarda meydana gelen kazaların tarladakileregöre daha ölümcül olduğu belirlenmiştir (%25.0 ve %9.0). Yol kazalarında en çokgörülen kaza tipleri; çarpma/çarpışma (%65.4) ve devrilme (%16.7)iken, tarla kazalarında yangın (%41.4) ve vücudun bir bölümünün makineyekaptırılması (%25.9) olarak belirlenmiştir. Tarla ve yol kazalarının en sıkgerçekleştiği bölgeler sırasıyla Güneydoğu Anadolu (%25.9) ve İç AnadoluBölgesi (%30.8) olmuştur. Hem tarla (%72.4) hem yol (%75.6) kazalarının büyükbir bölümü yaz aylarında olmuştur. Tarla kazalarının %65.5’i, yol kazalarının%91.4’ünde kazazedeler hastaneye ambulans ile taşınmıştır. Hem tarla hem yolkazalarına karışan operatörlerin hepsinin (%100) erkek olduğu belirlenmiştir. Kazalarınçoğunlukla insan hatasından kaynaklandığı dikkate alındığında, kazalarınazaltılması için etkin bir iş güvenliği eğitimi ve denetiminin gerekli olduğu değerlendirilmektedir.
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UR  - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/mkuzfd/issue//463356
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/606229
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