Teenage farm worker crushed to death in bale wrapper, inquest hears

A teenage farm worker was crushed to death in a bale wrapping machine - as his older brother worked in an adjacent field

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Luke Searle, 17, had been operating a tractor and baling machine to wrap up cut grass bales used for animal feed. But a Devon inquest heard today (Monday March 23) that there was a problem with the...

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