Farm Accidents News

Tributes have been paid to a six-year-old boy, Joe Hegarty, who was killed in a quad bike accident on a farm in Northern Ireland.

Police in Northern Ireland have launched an investigation into the death of a farmer and “much loved father of three” who died in a farm accident, following two other farm deaths over the past month. 

Following the release of the latest figures from the Health & Safety Executive (HSE), which show that farming is the most dangerous profession in the UK, a personal injury lawyer said that more needs to be done to keep the industry safe. 

Two motorcyclists have been hospitalised following a crash involving a tractor. 

Family has paid tributes to a 65-year-old Welsh farmer who tragically died in a quadbike accident. 

The Health and Safety Executive has recently published its work-related fatality figures for 2023/24, which revealed that agriculture has the poorest safety record of any occupation in the country. 

A man in his 80s died following a collision with a tractor near the Somerset-Dorset border. 

A woman was injured by a vintage tractor after her four-year-old son accidentally started the machine at a farming charity event.

A brewery worker has suffered serious burns following an explosion at a brewing facility in Cumbria.

A Cornwall farmworker was recently killed in an ‘industrial incident’, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has confirmed.

A Lancashire family paid tribute to a “beautiful, kind and lovely” teenager who was tragically killed in a farm bike crash last Saturday.

Two men died after an ‘industrial incident’ at a Cambridgeshire farm, where both parties were tragically crushed by straw bales.