Farmer Dies While Reversing Tractor

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It is believed the 84-year-old was using a scraper attachment to clear cow manure from a concrete dairy path when the tractor’s rear wheels have slipped into a slurry pond and he became pinned between the tractor’s steering wheel and a steel beam at the pond’s edge.

He was found unresponsive about 5pm.

The death is the 40th confirmed workplace fatality for 2025. There were 41 work-related deaths at the same time last year.

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