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
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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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