Farm Safety News

Tilly Pass provides guidance on health and safety this harvest, including checks on kit, visibility on the road and towing safety.

An East Yorkshire company has been fined more than half a million pounds after an employee’s lower arm was severed when it became entangled in a conveyor. 

Roger Apsey, who farms in Charlton Musgrove, South Somerset, rescued two-day-old piglets from a fire that broke out in his barn in the middle of the night.

Two farmers from North Yorkshire have been fined after a former teacher, David Clark, was killed by a herd of cows while crossing the right of way.

The father of a three-year-old boy who died after being struck by a telehandler on a Tottington farm has been sentenced to 12 months in prison. 

Farmers and hauliers are being urged not to forget safety when it comes to loading and unloading on farms.

A 23-year-old farmer suffered fatal head injuries after a tractor tyre exploded while he was inflating it.

The father of a three-year-old boy who died after being struck by a telehandler on a Tottington farm has been cleared of manslaughter.

Farmers have been warned that a little-known deadly gas emitted by slurry, even in open spaces, is responsible for fatalities in farming every year.

A company has to pay over £140,000 after a man was left seriously injured when he fell through a barn roof at a farm in Southampton.

Yellow Wellies and British Sugar have asked sugar beet farmers to follow a few important rules when working during dark winter mornings.

Farming is one of the deadliest industries and every year, hardworking farmers lose their lives, limbs, and livelihoods to preventable accidents. Tractor rollovers, slurry tank tragedies, machinery mishaps. These aren’t just statistics; they’re shattered families, lost futures, and empty chairs at the dinner table.