SHOCKING footage shows the moment a major gas explosion launched a slurry tank into the air, leaving a worker with severe injuries and an amputated leg. Tomasz Patek and Robert Tyrko were working on ...

A lethal cocktail of odourless gas has prompted reminders for farmers to take extra care when mixing slurry this autumn. Slurry gas includes extremely poisonous hydrogen sulphide. At low ...

Two farm workers drowned in pig muck after entering a slurry tank to remove a blockage, an inquest has found. Alexander Forman, 32, and Richard Pooley, 36, collapsed and fell into the liquid after ...

Officials from the Farm Safety Partnership and the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSENI) are advising farmers to stringently follow the slurry mixing code and warning just one ...

Mixing slurry can be a dangerous job as the gas is released very quickly and in large quantities as soon as the mixing starts ...

Farmers have been warned to be very careful when mixing slurry after four "narrow escapes" at farms across Northern Ireland in the last fortnight. In each case, the emergency services were called ...

Huge reductions in emissions can be achieved by fitting impermeable covers over slurry storage – as much as 80% on an above-ground tank and 50-60% by permeable floating materials, according to ...