farmer health and safety

Its three years since Jessica did a report on upland farming poverty for Oxfam. I came to the story below with some horrible recollections of the darker things we learnt though that report. It tells us:

A series of fatal accidents involving elderly farmers has highlighted the increased risk farming activities can pose to the over-65s, and prompted the NFU to urge farmers to take steps to safeguard their safety.

Three farmers, all over the age of 65, have died in unrelated accidents in different sectors of the industry since the start of May.