The UK's deadliest industry

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Farming: The UK's deadliest industry

He would either take the bales directly from the fields to the power station or to holding areas where they could be stored safely until needed.When the accident happened, Jack Fisher, Peter's son, was feeding cattle on a separate farm a few miles down the road.

That weekend, he had decided to put in an early shift so he would be finished by lunchtime and could enjoy a meal out with family visiting from Nottingham. He was up and working at 04:00, loading straw on to the lorry in bales 4ft wide, 4ft high and 8ft long. "There are lots of people who have said to me, 'How can you do a job that killed your dad?' But I think the way to look at it is if you lived your life of 'What if?', then the world wouldn't go round.Jack talks about how safety-conscious he is at work. He has become a campaigner for farm safety and says younger farmers are improving procedures to make accidents like the one that killed his father less likely.

The farm safety campaign group that Jack supports is called Yellow Wellies. He says it is managing to reach younger farmers, convincing them to take safety considerations more seriously.An HSE representative said agriculture generally was"an industry in which risks are poorly managed". "The supply chain in construction is often based on large companies employing various tiers of sub-contract specialists who can be directly influenced," the HSE representative said.

 

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With people operating heavy machinery 30miles from the neares hostpital, this hardly qualifies as a story!

Must be all the money the EU throws at them

I thought the deadliest industry would be Brexit head funds. But I guess betting on collapse can not. be called an industry.

Rich countries don't like farming.

That'll be all that cow 🐄 s*** 💩 they use? It's b***** lethal! 💀 LMAO 😂 Farming Fertliser

It'll be most deadest industry after Brexit

Is it as deadly as everyone starving to death if it didn't exist?

Oh MacDonald had a farm. Ei Ei Ei Ow!

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