A member of the community was discing (I think) and the disc became plugged. He put the tractor in neutral, but did not shut it off, got out and was unplugging the disc when the tractor popped back into gear somehow. His funeral was the following week.
Another member of the community was combining wheat and, for whatever reason, allowed his son or grandson (not sure which) to ride on the flat part of the combine in front of the cab. Combine hit a rut, ditch, or low spot and the header bar pitched down throwing the child into the header bar. The funeral was the following week.
A woman, wearing a loose shirt over her top, was helping her husband dig postholes with a posthole digger. The wind blew the tail of the shirt into the pto and she couldn't get it off fast enough. She survived, but had more broken bones than I can even remember.
Dad was wearing a new pair of boots and, during the course of the day, was cleaning out the drill. He slipped and went down between the drill and the platform on the back of it. Subsequently developed a blood clot in his leg from the damage done. When Mom finally got him to go to the doctor, the doctor told him if he had waited another few days he would have been dead. He spent several days in the hospital and had to have surgery on that leg.
Dad was grinding hay with a tub grinder and got distracted by something, tripped over something else, and nearly wound up in the grinder.
Sister-in-Law was helping my grandfather load steers and got kicked on the shin by a steer. Due to the extensive bruising, she developed a blood clot in her leg. She went to the doctor early enough that they were able to take care of it with medication and staying off the leg for several days.
