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Evaluation Of Foldable Tractor Roll-Over Protective Structures (Rops) Clearance, Luke Martin
Evaluation Of Foldable Tractor Roll-Over Protective Structures (Rops) Clearance, Luke Martin
Pursuit - The Journal of Undergraduate Research at The University of Tennessee
Tractor rollovers are a leading cause of death in the agricultural industry. While rollovers continue to happen, Roll-Over Protective Structures (ROPS) have shown great ability to prevent or reduce the casualties and injuries associated with rollover events. One authority on the subject even goes so far as to claim that “that fatality rates due to tractor overturns could be reduced by a minimum of 71% if all tractors in the U.S. were equipped with ROPS,” (NIOSH, 2009). The potential of this promising statistic has been devalued slightly due to the misapplication of foldable ROPS by leaving the ROPS in the …