He ended up ditching academia for the farming life even though neither he nor his then-girlfriend, Maria, had any agricultural experience. He declined to disclose the man’s name.Ĭhris Holman moved to Wisconsin from Oregon nearly a decade ago to pursue a Ph.D. I don’t think he had a clue what he was doing with that equipment,” said Field, who investigated the death as part of a lawsuit filed by the man’s widow. 30 from a government job and was dead by Thanksgiving. Two months into retirement, the man was killed in a grisly accident when he was pulled into the tractor’s power takeoff shaft - a rapidly spinning device at the rear end of the tractor that sends power to attachments. He bought a brand-new tractor and began clearing land, seemingly oblivious to the dangers posed by farm equipment. That includes the death of a man who entered retirement with dreams of starting a Christmas tree farm in the Northeast. Many were rookie farmers killed in accidents that people raised on farms and mindful of farming dangers would likely have avoided. Over the years, Field has served as an expert witness in more than 100 lawsuits that included the deaths of a surgeon, an FBI agent, a lawyer and several other professionals who traded white-collar careers for farming. Experts say some novices have little appreciation of the occupation’s dangers. But the nation’s growing embrace of small-scale production of local and organic crops is drawing more amateurs into the field, and inexperienced growers are increasingly getting maimed and even killed, often by old, unsafe machinery. The risk of serious injury or death has always been a part of farming. “If he had any time off, we went to the farm.” “The farm was a very important part of my husband’s life,” said Jacobs’ widow, Joyce. The tractor, which dated to the early 1960s, had no rollover protections. The Lawrenceburg, Indiana, anesthesiologist was removing dying ash trees in June 2015 when his tractor overturned as he was pulling a tree up a hill. Decades later, he still spent time there, maintaining the property as a second job and using its campsite for family getaways.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Phil Jacobs was just a teenager when his parents bought a scenic Kentucky farm with hayfields, forests, creeks, trails and a view of the Ohio River.
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