Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many farm accidents were reported involving a slurry tank or other slurry storage in the last three years.

Farmers in Great Britain are required to report accidents that cause defined injuries to people under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013. Reports made in compliance with these regulations do not contain sufficient detail to enable identification of all incidents that are specifically related to slurry storage.

In the case of incidents that have caused death, the Health and Safety Executive publishes annual reports of fatal injuries in agriculture in Great Britain. In the last three years for which figures have been published, the following deaths related to slurry storage were recorded: