Farm Safety Series: Agricultural vehicles still deadly modes of transport

Farm transport and machinery continues to be a main cause of life changing and life ending injuries on GB farms, accounting for 40 per cent of all farm worker fatalities in the last decade.

Hannah Binns
News Reporter
clock • 6 min read
Farm Safety Series: Agricultural vehicles still deadly modes of transport

Farm transport and machinery continues to be a main cause of life changing and life ending injuries on GB farms, accounting for 40 per cent of all farm worker fatalities in the last decade. In the last...

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