[identity profile] james-nicoll.livejournal.com 2008-12-29 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Usually people died in car wrecks or in hunting accidents.

Or something horrible involving farm equipment.

[identity profile] jhetley.livejournal.com 2008-12-30 04:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Or chainsaws. Just about the world's most hazardous tool.

[identity profile] james-nicoll.livejournal.com 2008-12-30 04:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, one of my brothers was chainsawing a tree trunk, hit a knot and had the chainsaw buck back towards his face. He managed to stop it before it made contact.

Modern chainsaws are designed so that when you let go, they turn off but I am not sure that was true back when.