Dairy farms are disproportionately accident-prone

Dairy farms have a disproportionately high level of farm accidents causing fatal and non-fatal injuries.

Some 58% of fatal farm accidents have occurred on dairy farms.

The level of non-fatal accidents is twice as high in dairy farming compared with other cattle enterprises, according to a presentation at this year’s Moorepark open day by Teagasc health and safety officer John McNamara and Patrick Griffin of the Health and Safety Authority.