Agriculture has highest rate of work-related fatal injuries in Ireland
The social sustainability of farmers and preventing injury and ill health were topics at Teagasc’s recent Signpost webinar. The alarming factor underpinning the presentation being that agriculture has the highest rate of work-related fatal injuries in Ireland. With statistics showing that farmers are seven times more likely to be killed at work compared with any other sector. While construction workers account for six deaths in every 100,000 workers, data from…