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<\/div>\nA 92-year-old retired Nebraska farmer is crediting the Apple Watch Fall Detection feature with saving his life after a 21-foot fall.<\/p>\n
The Apple Watch<\/a> that the man, Jim Salsman of Grant, Nebraska, was wearing automatically alerted emergency services after he took the plunge about a month ago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Salsman had been climbing the ladder to secure a grain bin from pigeons. Once he was on it, the wind had pushed and sent him falling 21 feet the ground. “It was just a dumb stupid mistake on my part,’ Salsman told<\/a> local media outlet KETV<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n After he hit the ground, Salsman said he was in a lot of pain. He activated “Hey Siri” on his Apple Watch, telling it that he was “hurt bad on the farm.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n But by the time he activated the digital assistant, first responders from the Grant Volunteer Fire Department had already been alerted to the fall with details on his current location.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The retired farmer is still recovering from a broken hip and other injuries at the Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital in Lincoln. He said if it wasn’t for his Apple Watch, he might not have been so lucky<\/p>\n<\/div>\n “If I didn’t have this watch, I think I would’ve been dead before anybody missed me,” Salsman said. “I really do.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n This isn’t the first time an Apple Watch user has credited the feature for helping to save them in an emergency. In 2019, Fall Detection summoned first responders<\/a> after a Norwegian man took a midnight fall and fractured his skull. It also contacted 911<\/a> when a 87-year-old woman got into a car crash in June of that year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The Apple Watch Fall Detection feature can automatically detect if a user takes a hard impact or fall. Once it does, it prompts the user to see if they’re okay — and automatically contacts emergency services if they don’t respond within a minute.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n First introduced on the Apple Watch Series 4<\/a>, Fall Detection is enabled by default for wearers 65 years and older. Everyone else has to manually turn it on<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Tags:<\/b> Mike Peterson <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSee Campaign: <\/strong>https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/inside\/apple-watch<\/a>
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A 92-year-old retired Nebraska farmer is crediting the Apple Watch Fall Detection feature with saving his life after a 21-foot fall. The Apple Watch that the man, Jim Salsman of Grant, Nebraska, was wearing automatically alerted emergency services after he took the plunge about a month ago. Salsman had been climbing the ladder to secure … Continue reading Apple Watch Fall Detection helps save 92-year-old farmer after fall<\/span><\/a> Continue Reading