Farm accident kills Wis. man

A farming accident turned deadly at a farm in Hobart, Wis.

According to Fox 11 News, emergency crews were called to the farm over the weekend after a section of a payloader fell on a man. He was later pronounced dead at the scene.

No one else was injured in the accident.

Read more from Fox 11 News.  

A Pennsylvania man was also killed this weekend while working on his unloading hay bales from a skid-steer at a Lackawanna County, Pa., farm. Read more here.

Many universities have a plethora of advice to use agriculture machinery safely, including payloaders and skid-steers. Here are just some of the many resources available:

• Texas AgriLife Extension: Agricultural Machinery Safety
• Virginia Cooperative Extension: Machinery Safety on the Farm
• Kansas State University: Farm Machinery Safety

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