Maldwyn Harries was killed in Cefn Rhiwlas near Llandeilo, South Wales, on September 23 last year, while working with his wife and son. A Welsh farmer who has been described as an “important member” of the rural community was killed when a bull smashed him against a brick wall, an inquest into his death has heard.
Maldwyn, with his son Mark, his wife Gillian, and a farm vet had been testing the farm animals for tuberculosis on Friday morning. Mrs Harries told Paul Bennett, acting chief coroner for Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire, that Mr Harries had tried to push the bull back out of a stall and crush it so the vet could tag it.
Maldwyn Harries Age
Maldwyn Harries was 58 years old.
Maldwyn Harries Cause of Death
The bull was used to passing through the yard and milking parlor twice a day and had passed through the crowd earlier that day, he said. Also at the inquest at Llanelli Town Hall on Friday was Simon Breen from the Health and Safety Executive explaining how Mr Harries had been in the stable next to the bull and nudged the bull on the nose to encourage him to back.
Breen said the bull would “normally respond by backing down.” But this time it didn’t and Mr. Harries ducked under the railings between the two stalls and tried again. Breen said: “Somehow the bull decided to move forward instead of back.”
Mr Harries was crushed between the animal and the wall and suffered “multiple traumatic injuries” to his chest, abdomen and spine. Mark Harries promptly removed the bull from the area and then destroyed it because he had tested positive for tuberculosis.
Despite the best efforts of medical workers, including the air ambulance, who treated him with six pints of blood, Mr. Harries died at the scene. A post-mortem examination by Dr. Petya Nedeva gave the medical cause of death as “multiple traumatic injuries to the chest, abdomen and spine” caused by “accidental crushing by a bull“.
In a report read by coroner Hayley Rogers, Mr Harries was heard to be a self-employed farmer on the family farm in Carmarthenshire.
After hearing the “tragic account” of the events, Mr Bennett said: “Sadly, this is one of those rare and rare occasions where someone has died in the context of doing their very valuable work as part of the community. agriculture in this country and in the course of that has placed them in an unfortunate situation of risk which led, as we know, to Mr. Harries suffering significant traumatic crush injuries from which he subsequently died.
He added that he could not imagine how the death of Mr. Harries had affected Ms. Harries “both as her wife and her family, but also as an important member of the farming community.”
Bennett said Harries’s death was clearly an accident as an “unintended consequence” of “the everyday part of farm routine”. He recorded an accidental death conclusion.
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