A Fatal Injury to the Gluteal Region and Perineum by a Disc Harrow: A Case Report

Agricultural accidents over the years have grown many manifolds due to the increased use of modern machineries. Among the different farm machineries used in agriculture, Harrow is used for breaking up and smoothing out the surface of the soil, for deeper tillage, to follow the rough finish left by ploughing operations, to break up clods (lumps of soil) and to provide a finer finish, a good tilth or soil structure that is suitable for seedbed use. Here we present a case, where a child met with a fatal incident in the farm while his parents were ploughing the field with one of the modern advanced ploughing machine “the disc harrow”. This shows the gross negligence on the part of the parents.The sacrum of the boy was split into two in the midline. This case stresses upon the safety measures to be taken during farming using modern machine tools.