AQW 20495/17-22 Written question to the Minister of Finance
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail the number of deaths due to farm related accidents, in each of the last five years.
Asked by John Blair MLA on 16 June 2021
- Answered
- Written
- After due date
- Tabled
- 16 June 2021
- Answer due by
- 1 July 2021
- Answered
- 2 July 202116 days after tabling
- Department
- Department of Finance
- Priority question
- No
Answer
Since the first of January 2015 there have been of 35 fatalities on farms in Northern Ireland.
11 fatal incidents involved animals, 15 involved machinery, 8 resulted from falls from height and 1 from exposure to slurry gas.
A breakdown by year is shown in the table below.
| Date | Incident Type | No. of Fatalities |
| 2015 | Animal | 1 |
| 2015 | Fall | 1 |
| 2015 | Equipment | 4 |
| 2016 | Slurry | 1 |
| 2016 | Animal | 2 |
| 2016 | Fall | 2 |
| 2016 | Equipment | 2 |
| 2017 | Animal | 3 |
| 2017 | Equipment | 4 |
| 2018 | Animal | 4 |
| 2018 | Fall | 2 |
| 2018 | Equipment | 2 |
| 2019 | Equipment | 1 |
| 2020 | Animal | 1 |
| 2020 | Fall | 2 |
| 2020 | Equipment | 1 |
| 2021 | Fall | 1 |
| 2021 | Equipment | 1 |