Safety appeal to Limerick farmers in bid to reduce deaths in 2021
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THERE were 19 fatal incidents on farms in 2020, with three of these being children under the age of 18, and nine being farmers aged 65 or more. This follows 25 fatalities in 2017, 15 in 2018 and 19 in 2019.
In County Limerick, Danny Mullins, aged 77, from Anglesboro, died following a tragic farm accident in July. Many Christmases were destroyed following Bertie O Rahilly’s sad death in a farm accident just over the border in Knocknagoshel on December 24.
Minister of State for Farm Safety at the Department of Agriculture, Martin Heydon highlighted the significant number of fatalities on Irish farms in 2020 as a result of workplace incidents.