Dangers to farm vets on the news

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Clare Tapsfield-Wright — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 17:44:49 GMT

Me too , quite poignant , I like the fact that her thoughts are still on the list

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Martin Atkinson — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 14:55:52 GMT

[quote user="Wren"]I didn't realise this was an old thread and just got the most massive shock![/quote]So did I, my heart literally missed a beat. I thought it was a touch of the Mark Twain.

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Wren — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 14:50:41 GMT

[quote user="Hannah Wynne Richards"]

I know of 2 children killed when their fathers reversed tractors over them.

Wynne

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I didn't realise this was an old thread and just got the most massive shock!

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Julian Earl — Sat, 15 Apr 2017 10:37:15 GMT

I would expect that many cattle-vets and farmers have legs full of scar tissue from kicks. A colleague was kicked and developed a massive haematoma that led to a myocardial infarction when some clot broke off! Scary! I feel lucky that kicks have just caused bruises in my thighs and not caused a catastrophic knee injury like a cruciate rupture. I cannot understand why any vet would rectal a horse without a straw bale etc as a protection!

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Hannah Wynne Richards — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 08:23:31 GMT

I know of 2 children killed when their fathers reversed tractors over them.

Wynne

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Neil Wheadon — Sun, 13 Nov 2016 16:00:23 GMT

[quote user="Busybee"]Comes with the territory![/quote]

Does anyone remember this? It was played to us at school and was pretty chilling. I came from an agricultural area and was a public information film. Basically a bunch of children being killed in farm accidents and was made in 1977.

Title name Apaches - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0GyRz_lOQA

Farms are dangerous places, my father had a rock on display that hit him on the head from lifting straw. I very nearly drowned in an underground slurry silo when someone left the lid of. (and yes one did die in the slurry pit)

It's been a problem for years and I had a sixth sense to danger, others don't. I recall fresh TB testers at DEFRA frequently getting hands mangled and cut simply because they were inexperienced in the dangers.

Neil

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Busybee — Sun, 13 Nov 2016 15:48:04 GMT

Comes with the territory! But you also learn quickly to have fighter-pilot reactions. Have had a fair few squashed fingers, hands and arms TB testing and the odd kick to boot. Touch wood, nothing more serious (yet...). The most painful injury by far was the cat bite to the finger! Small animal work isn't always safer!