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10 year old boy killed in slurry accident
Louise32
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A ten year old boy has been killed in a slurry accident in Northern Ireland.
An adult has also been injured in it.
Sad. What can be done to ensure these types of accidents don't happen?
An adult has also been injured in it.
Sad. What can be done to ensure these types of accidents don't happen?
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Gosh that's so awful. What a dreadful way to die.
Other adult is critically injured. Hopefully he will be ok.
This is after the tragedy in Hillsborough when a father and his sons died trying to rescue their pet dog.
I think the hope was that following the recent tragedy with the Ulster player and his family people may have taken greater safety precautions, but unfortunately not every event can be legislated for.
I doubt they were pissing about tbh.
Anyway, this is terrible, what was a 10 year old boy doing in there/doing to end up in there?
Awful.
There's few details. Generally though young boys like to follow, and help, their daddies on a farm. Very sad.
This is roughly what I was thinking, potentially dad was cleaning and he followed in or something. I'm sure what happened will come out, it sounds like quite an unpleasent scenario.
Very sad.
Respirators wouldn't be any use, you would need BA. You want to see the regulations for entering enclosed vessels.
Very sad for the family.
At our place, just to go inside something like that would require full risk assessment, method statement, permit, full BA set, tripod, winch, two top men, personal gas monitor, ATEX radios, the lot.
Oddly, there was another tragedy in the same family involving a slurry tank a few years back. I can only hope and pray that Bertie pulls through, and I feel so sorry for the family this evening
Same here.Can't see any of that happening on farms.I wonder how many incidents go unreported.
Sorry for your loss.
It is a horrible situation. Hopefully Bertie will pull through.
Much earlier (years) we were about to go down a well, The Plumber who was training me lowered a bucket with a Candle in it down first. It went out and we didn't go down. Declared a Foul well, we put the owner on Main Water supply. You can't be too careful.
Hydrogen Sulfide, the natural gas found in sewers, chambers, septic tanks etc etc is a killer. It smells like rotten eggs, but after just a few inhalations, you don't smell it anymore because it does something to your sense of smell, so you think it is safe. You can be overcome very quickly even at low concentrations.
Most children who live on farms perform jobs that seem to escape the child labour law regulations that stop children being employed in the workplace elsewhere. That's a very hazardous job his father was doing, I cannot understand how there are no laws preventing children from participating in such dangerous work. Why should children living on farms be exposed to such health and safety risks when it is not tolerated in other workplace environments?
^^^ Stupid question.
^^^ True, correct answer.
Surely farming is a way of life and the things farming families and children do are a world away from what City folk do. I work with quite a few women from farming families and their children of the same age get involved in all sorts of the farm and do things I wouldn't dream of letting my son get involved with but that's because that's their lifestyle, that's what they are used to and it's just normal behaviour.
Does that excuse the lack of H&S precautions though? I don't think it does.
You can't fall back on 'It's what we've always done' if 'what you've always done' isn't safe.