Farm Safety

As fertiliser prices soar, time spent getting spreader settings right will be particularly valuable this season. Alice Dyer reports.

A farmer has received a 26-week prison sentence, suspended for 18 months, following the death of his four-year-old nephew in a farm incident. 

A serious accident involving a forestry worker in Angus has highlighted the dangers involved in clearing up after the winter storms.

A farmer in Derbyshire has died after he was struck by a falling bale. 

A farm worker has died after he was crushed when working beneath raised farm equipment.

A farmer has received a 12 week prison sentence for safety breaches after an 83-year-old man was fatally attacked by cattle.

A man has died and several others injured after a UTV and trailer fell into a river when a bridge collapsed.

An auction mart has been prosecuted and fined £16,000 after a drover sustained a serious laceration to his leg following an incident with a horned bull.

A farming partnership has been fined £53,000 after a farm worker was fatally injured in an incident involving a telehandler within the pig barn.

Drivers of UTVs should always use the vehicle’s seatbelts and not assume the roll-cage will prevent serious injury or death, safety chiefs have warned.