Safety at work: ‘The biggest mistake I made was not wearing a safety helmet’

Kerryman Peadar Farrell, a part-time farmer who runs a construction business with his son Peter, has no recollection of the accident that almost claimed his life.

Rushing to finish plastering a new house, he fell through a broken wooden plank and suffered a traumatic brain injury.

“When I woke up first, I didn’t know my wife, my family, didn’t know I had cows or a farm or what I had,” he recalls in an online video.