AQW 20495/17-22

Mr John Blair
Alliance Party
South Antrim

Tabled Date: 16/06/2021
Answered On Date: 02/07/2021
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail the number of deaths due to farm related accidents, in each of the last five years.

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