Deceased
Kalon Tippett
Demographics
1y, male
Date of death
2009-02-21
Finding date
2010-08-10
Cause of death
Massive head injury
AI-generated summary
Kalon Tippett, aged 21 months, died from massive head injuries sustained when he fell from a tractor bucket and was run over on a family farm. The child was placed in the bucket of a moving tractor by his father as an alternative to walking alongside the machine. Despite the operator's manual explicitly prohibiting riders, this practice was common on family farms. The death resulted from a momentary lapse in supervision while the child was in an inherently dangerous environment. Young children do not understand risk and can behave unpredictably. The coroner emphasised that safer practices require strict adherence to manufacturer warnings, close supervision if children must be near farm machinery, and preferably excluding children from working farm environments entirely.
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Error types
Clinical conditions
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