People don't realize just how dangerous farming really is. I grew up in North Central Iowa. In a very small rural area. We had one neighbor who's wife had her arm torn off by a grain auger. We had one neighbor who was killed by a holstein bull. And my jr high locker mate was killed when he fell off the tractor and was run over by the disc it was pulling. And his brother (who had been driving the tractor at the time), two years later, was electrocuted when a piece of equipment came into contact with an overhead power line.
No one died in my family, but the list of injuries is long. My grandfather lost a thumb, my brother had his left hand slashed wide open and tendons severed, my dad tore his leg open, and I had a piece of barbed wire driven into my skull (guess that explains a lot).
Indeed.
At 41.4 fatalities per 100K, the occupation of farming is over twice as deadly as that of being a leo.
To add insult to injury, farmers do not even get a shiny badge to help pick up ditzy chicks at the bar when they moonlight as a bouncer!