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AN INVESTIGATION HAS been launched after a man in his 70s died at a potato farm in Meath yesterday.
The man was struck by a teleporter on the farm near Stamullen, a spokesperson for the Health and Safety Authority told TheJournal.ie.
He was taken to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda yesterday afternoon where he was pronounced dead.
A total of 47 people died in workplace accidents across Ireland last year, with elderly farmers the most at-risk group.
“We have seen fourteen elderly farmers killed last year, many of them working alone at the time of the accident,” said HSA chief executive Martin O’Halloran.
“Finding supports for elderly farmers or farmers working alone is something that needs to be addressed,” he said.
“The Health and Safety Authority will continue to do its part through inspection, awareness raising and education but safe farming has to happen every day, not just after an inspection.
We need to make this a fundamental part of farming culture, until it is we will continue to have devastation and carnage on our farms.
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My deepest condolence to the family of the man at this very sad and difficult time,
May he Rest In Peace.
Thoughts with him and his loved ones.
The older we get the more robotic we become. When you a small child you climb, run, fall. As you grow you reach a peek of strength then it goes down again.
You come use to your every day routine, we should do more to challenge our minds and ways.
Families run farms are very dangerous. government farms creating jobs with propper safety would bring farming into the 21st century.
@Sean Conway: Because the government have made such a great job of health, transport, housing etc.?
@Sean Conway: They have made an mess that is so bad it can’t be cleaned up let’s let them do the same too our family farms. I DON’T THINK SO!!!. Family farming is a way of life it’s not just a job it’s a labor of love a love that farmers don’t want too leave.
@Sean Conway:
Please point to one country where government run farms have been a success
@Sean Conway: It would bring farming to a stand still Sean.
Farm succession a big issue nowadays. Labour scarce with children too educated to bother w family farm.
@Monty Donotno:
I have two brothers farming, eight kids between them and not one has any interest in taking up farming and that’s with two large farms on good quality land in leinster
Jesus!
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