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The high cost of low farmyard accident claims

Agriculture has one of the highest rates of personal injury resulting from accidents at work and work-related fatalities of all the major employment sectors. Accidents can happen anywhere on a farm, but the farmyard is a site where injury and death of farmers, agricultural workers and farmer's family members can occur and these in turn may lead to a farmyard accident claim being made.

The main causes of death to farm workers on agricultural sites and in the farmyard are:

  • transport - being run over by or being involved in vehicle overturns accounts for 24% of fatalities
  • falling from height falls through fragile roofs or from high buildings and structures accounts for 17% of deaths
  • object strikes being hit by hay bales, tree branches etc; 15%
  • asphyxiation / drowning either in liquid or in dusty atmospheres such as grain silos; 10%
  • livestock-related deaths crush injuries, kicking and animal attacks; 10%
  • machinery accidents; 8%
  • collapses or overturns which cause entrapment; 7%
  • contact with electricity; 5%

Health and Safety Executive (HSE) reports suggest that, in terms of non-fatal injuries, statistics are vague because of gross under reporting. The HSE suggests that under RIDDOR (Reporting of Injuries Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995) requirements only about 26% of personal injuries are reported and this becomes even lower for the self-employed farmer and farm worker reducing to a mere 5%.

This means it is very difficult to accurately compare personal injury relates in the agricultural sector with other industries and employment sectors, but it has been estimated that as a result of farmyard accidents and related incidents in agriculture the economy loses around £6.6 billion annually.

When accidents are investigated it has been found that such losses may well have been preventable if stricter health and safety measures had been undertaken

Making a farmyard accident claim with YouClaim
If you have been injured in a farmyard and you feel that someone else's negligence was to blame, it is your civil right to make a farmyard accident claim for compensation.

Being awarded a damages payout can help relieve the burden caused by having to take time off work by compensating for loss of earnings; as well as for pain and suffering and loss of enjoyment if the injuries have affected your life outside the workplace.

Even though farming and the agricultural industry is highly unregulated, if an accident was not your fault you deserve compensation and the personal injury lawyers at YouClaim are experts in fighting for the appropriate recompense for those who have suffered an accident at work.

Call YouClaim today on 0800 10 757 95 to see if we could represent you on a no win, no fee basis, and win you 100% compensation for your claim. Alternatively you could have a real time echat or fill in an online claim form and we will call you back at a time to suit you.