James notes an item questioning how this could happen;
A Czech tractor driver died under eight tons of manure in a bizarre accident that has baffled his employers, local media reported. The 34-year old man, identified only as Martin T, suffocated after the load fell on him while he was dumping it in a field near the western Czech city of Karlovy Vary, news Web Site www.novinky.cz reported Sunday. “It absolutely beats me how this could happen,” said Vladimir Erps, chief of the company employing the victim. “The truck is operated from the tractor cabin, using hydraulics. There was nothing for him to do under the truck, but it’s tough to blame him now that he is dead,” the news site quoted him as saying.
I know someone who was killed doing this, in what I suspect was the same manner. The truck’s hydraulics were functional, but the control levers to engage them were not. Thus, the box had to be raised by activating the hydraulics from under the truck. As it did, the weight of the sliding load caused the truck to suddenly move forward (the brakes were defective or disengaged) and he was crushed beneath the rear wheels.
Tractor Driver Dies Under Load of Manure
Tractor Driver Dies Under Load of Manure (Reuters)
A Czech tractor driver died under eight tons of manure in a bizarre accident that has baffled his employers, local media reported. The 34-year old man, identified only as Martin T, suffocated afte…
Poor guy landed in the shit….
Looks to have been the other way round, actually.
Obviously the guy wasn’t a leftie since those folks manage to survive the same sort of thing every time they go to one of their conventions.
Almost as bad as that zoo keeper who died when a constipated elephant, uh, “let go”. Apparently the fart asphixiated him as much as the load that fell on him after he fainted.
Shitty way to die, either way.