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50% drop in farming fatalities in 2021

lalababa · 2021-12-31 13:58:20

What do ye think caused this drop, when I assume all farmers were going about their farming business as usual? Due to covid restrictions? Less stress from an off farm job due to less work/WFH? Less stress due to reduced social interactions? More time to accomplish farm tasks due to less off farm work/social interactions?…

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#32 04-01-2022 02:28PM

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Is there anywhere you can look up to see how farmers were killed or injured in farm accidents without names and locations being mentioned? Reading that would make me think how to farm in a safer way. Being attacked by livestock, slurry/agitating accidents, PTO accidents, falling from ladders/roofs and brakes/handbrakes not working properly on tractors must account for most i’d think.

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#33 04-01-2022 04:35PM

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#34 08-01-2022 07:08PM

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Seemingly no deaths from farm machinery last year.
And one third of the deaths were from Co.Cavan.

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