Medics worried at lack of farmer safety training

Medics at Cork University Hospital have raised concerns about the lack of mandatory safety training for farmers.

The medics at the hospital’s emergency department raised their concerns after revealing that 54 were patients admitted to CUH after major trauma caused by a farm accident between 2009 and 2013.

In their study, the medics record that there was one fatal injury — a farmer had died after receiving a kick from a cow.