1. Medicolegal Investigations Into Deaths Due to Crush Asphyxia After Tractor Side Rollovers
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Sirio Cividino, Rino Gubiani, Antonia Fanzutto, Ugo Da Broi, Gianfranco Pergher, and Carlo Moreschi
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Tractor ,business.product_category ,Injury control ,Accident prevention ,Poison control ,side rollover ,Occupational safety and health ,Pathology and Forensic Medicine ,Asphyxia ,Crush Injuries ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Theoretical ,Models ,Risk Factors ,Forensic engineering ,medicine ,Humans ,030216 legal & forensic medicine ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Purpura ,business.industry ,crush asphyxia death ,farm tractor ,Accidents ,Equipment Design ,Forensic Medicine ,Models, Theoretical ,Agriculture ,Motor Vehicles ,2734 ,Rollover ,Safety Equipment ,medicine.symptom ,business - Abstract
Farm tractors are large, heavy, powerful vehicles with a high center of gravity. When driven carelessly on sloping, irregular, or slippery ground, tractors can overturn sideways and cause the death by crush asphyxia of the driver or passengers, especially if appropriate safety equipment is not fitted or used. The aim of this review is to focus on the diagnostic difficulties with which coroners and forensic pathologists have to cope when a confirmation of crush asphyxia after tractor side rollover is required by judicial authorities. Forensic investigations in such cases must involve the meticulous analysis of the death scene and the mechanical characteristics of the vehicle together with accurate postmortem and toxicological examination.
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- 2017
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