Sherborne: farm worker died after concrete divider collapsed

CONCERNS have been raised after a farm worker died as a result of a makeshift divide falling on him.

An inquest into the death of Jamie Paul Woods heard that the 40-year-old was a farm worker on Hawkins Farm, in Sherborne, when a concrete panel weighing approximately 800kg collapsed on him.

The inquest was told two panels had been repurposed from another building in order to form a divide between a ‘collecting yard’ - an area where cattle are held prior to being encouraged into the milking parlour - and an adjacent barn used for straw storage.