Irish business fined 65,000 after farmer loses fingers & thumb in ‘devastating injury’ in horror Cork farm accident [Video]

AN AGRI-TRADE business was fined €65,000 after a farmer lost all the fingers and thumb of his right hand in a fertiliser spreader which was brought to his farm by a contractor.

Inspector David Barry of Health and Safety Authority said the accident happened on a farm in Cork on June 26, 2021.

Stuart and Lyndon Smith Ltd, of Ballynametagh, Carrigaline, Co Cork was contracted to spread fertiliser on the land of Thomas Maw.

One of their workers was operating a spreader.

The farmer assisted the worker when the fertiliser clogged the machine.

Unfortunately, in an instant all of his fingers and the thumb of his right hand were severed. 

An auger guard which would have stopped the accident from occurring had been removed by the company eight months earlier.

Mr Maw, in a victim impact statement heard previously in the Cork Circuit …