A worker employed to clear out an industrial chicken shed lost his arm after it became trapped in unguarded machinery.
Mike Aubry, 27, of Bradninch, near Exeter, was working at Millard Poultry Ltd at Little Acre, Lower Godney, Wells, when the incident happened on 4 December, 2010.
In a prosecution…
A man has been killed at a Monaghan Mushrooms farm - he was struck by a front-end loader and died at the scene.
A self-employed blacksmith and fabricator has been fined after one of his employees was severely injured after falling more than seven metres from a roof he was working on.
Martin Mundie, 23, from St Fergus, Aberdeenshire, was employed by Joseph Adams and was part of a team carrying out work to conv…
Llynclys Farm Ltd. has been fined after a worker fractured his pelvis falling nearly three metres from an unguarded platform.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted the company following the incident outside a poultry house at their Stoke Heath Farm site in Market Drayton, on 20 July 20…
A farming company has been fined after a worker had to have two toes from his right foot amputated, when he became entangled in machinery inside a grain reception pit.
On 4 September 2009, due to heavy rain, the grain reception pit at the premises of R Todd & Company at Blacketyside Farm, Fife, had f…
The thumb and fingers on a worker’s right hand were cut off while he was using a firewood processing machine at a Shropshire farm, a court heard.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted farmer Richard Griffiths, of Town Cottage Farm, Hughley, after the 16 December 2010 incident t…
A Cupar farming partnership has been fined £112,500 after a worker was killed when he was crushed between the rollers of a potato harvester.
Keith Wannan, 34, from Cupar, died as he was replacing rubber sleeves on the rollers of a potato harvester to prepare it for the new harvesting season.
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The Health and Safety Executive (HSE), is investigating after a teenage boy was badly burned on a farm in Egremont.
Police said the 15-year-old boy was doing odd jobs at a farm when the incident happened on Monday night.
It is reported that the boy had burn injuries to his lower body and had been u…
Agriculture has one of the highest fatal accident rates of any industry in the UK. It is also the only high-risk industry that has to deal with the constant presence of children. Farms are homes as well as workplaces.
Visitors to the countryside, many of them children, are often present whilst work …
A 44-year old farm worker received fatal head injuries in a 3-metre fall from a forklift truck during work to deposit fertiliser into a bin on a farm at Yarrawonga, Victoria.
John Halpin, a 72-year-old father of three, was struck by farm machinery and pronounced dead on arrival at hospital.
Read more at the Limerick Leader.
Two firms have been fined after an accident at a farm left a construction worker with severe spinal injuries which have left him reliant on a wheelchair.
Mr Cooke, from Cleeve, near Bristol, had been dismantling the roof while sub-contracting for Martock-based firm CW Pearce, which in turn was worki…
Farming company fined after man is trapped in manure machine
A Bradford farming company has been prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after one of its employees was seriously injured after slipping into a manure machine.
Worker's crush death leads to fine for East Lothian farmers
A fa…
Man injured in farming accident
A man is in a critical condition following a farming accident when he was working alone on a farm in Derbyshire.
Buncefield depot staff 'not trained properly'
St Albans Crown Court was told that the explosion at the depot on 11 December 2005, happened after vapour fro…
Take a risk - it's good for your health
Judith Hackitt (Chair of the Health and Safety Executive) talks to the Manchester Evening News about risks, conkers and other myths.
Contractor fined following incident at sewage works
A construction company was prosecuted after an incident which saw an employ…
Truck danger warning after death
A fatal accident has prompted a warning that variable reach trucks should not be used if the right-hand side window is missing or broken.
Three killed in Norway train crash
Empty wagons from a freight train hurtled out of control and slammed into a building killing t…
Free 'Danger' display card from the HSE
Get free copies of the A5 colour 'Danger' display card, relevant to your sector, from the Health and Safety Executive. The 'Danger' display card will remind your staff of actions they can take to help prevent slips, trips or falls from height. You can reques…
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