Farm Safety

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.

Rural roads were the location of 1,649 fatalities and 16,055 serious injuries between 2018 and 2020, making them more deadly than their urban counterparts, new data from the Department for Transport (DfT) has found.