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Medicolegal Implications of Fatalities Because of Entanglement in the Augers of Feed Mixer Wagons

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Feed mixer or total mixed ration mixer wagons are powerful agricultural machines used to shred and mix silage with other ingredients and deliver it direct to the feeding troughs on livestock farms. Fatalities involving these feed mixers may occur when operators become trapped in the augers or, less frequently, are crushed by moving wagons. Death can occur very rapidly because of dismemberment, multiple lesions, or crushing. The aim of this review is to focus on the diagnostic evaluations that need to be performed to confirm that the death was accidental and to exclude a hypothesis of murder or suicide. Forensic investigations in such cases must involve the detailed analysis of the death scene and the mechanical characteristics of the machinery with an accurate postmortem and toxicological examination.

agricultural accidentsagricultural fatalitiesmixer wagonsaugersdismembermentACCIDENTAL DECAPITATIONAGRICULTURAL INJURIESFARM INJURIESAUSTRALIAADULTSINCIDENTSASPHYXIAVICTORIADEATHSLETHAL

Moreschi, Carlo、Da Broi, Ugo、Tse, Rexson、Garland, Jack、Ondruschka, Benjamin、Cividino, Sirio Rossano、Vello, Michela、Gubiani, Rino

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Dept Med,Univ Udine

Sch Med,Univ Auckland

Forens & Analyt Sci Serv,NSW Hlth Pathol

Inst Legal Med,Univ Med Ctr Hamburg Eppendorf

Dept Agr & Environm Sci,Univ Udine

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2022

The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology

The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology

ISSN:0195-7910
年,卷(期):2022.43(2)
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