Missing clear images for bale loading and unloading
Health and Safety Executive received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 17 Apr 2020 and 18 Jul 2024.
They came from 2 different coroners in 2 coroner areas. A similar concern was raised again 1 time after the first warning.
A published response was found for 1 of the 1 earlier reports, stating 1 specific action.
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Spacing grows with the time between reports.
“There is no definitive guidance provided to the industry in relation to the stacking or unstacking of bales, or in relation to the loading and strapping of loaded trailers”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Health and Safety Executive responded, stating 1 specific action.Response (PDF) ↗
“We continue to monitor and adapt our guidance in light of incidents and modern farming practices. For example, INDG125(rev3) was revised in 2012 to provide updated guidance to the industry on safe working practices, including the safe loading and unloading of bales.”
- 4 years 3 months laterClosely relatedConfidence 0.85 · higha different coroner
“It became apparent that there were no clear images in the guidance or support materials produced by HSE to assist drivers who load and unload bales.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Repeated from the earlier report:guidancebales
Health and Safety Executive responded.Response (PDF) ↗
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2020 → 2024Tony Williams4 years 3 months after Ashley Holden · different coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.85 · high
Closely relatedConfidence 0.85 · highBoth reports address insufficient visual guidance for safe bale handling during loading/unloading. The earlier report cites lack of definitive written guidance; the later notes missing clear images in existing guidance.
Ashley Holden · 17 Apr 2020
“There is no definitive guidance provided to the industry in relation to the stacking or unstacking of bales, or in relation to the loading and strapping of loaded trailers”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Tony Williams · 18 Jul 2024
“It became apparent that there were no clear images in the guidance or support materials produced by HSE to assist drivers who load and unload bales.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Stated action in the response to the earlier report
“We continue to monitor and adapt our guidance in light of incidents and modern farming practices. For example, INDG125(rev3) was revised in 2012 to provide updated guidance to the industry on safe working practices, including the safe loading and unloading of bales.”
Stated action
“We continue to monitor and adapt our guidance in light of incidents and modern farming practices. For example, INDG125(rev3) was revised in 2012 to provide updated guidance to the industry on safe working practices, including the safe loading and unloading of bales.”
No specific action could be extracted with a verified quote.
- Each report's concerns were extracted by Nemotron 3 Nano on Nebius Token Factory, each with a quote copied from the report.
- Concerns from reports to Health and Safety Executive at least six months apart were compared by meaning (Qwen3 embeddings) and wording (TF-IDF).
- The closest pairs were judged by Nemotron 3 Super with reasoning on. Only identical or closely related, with confidence of at least 0.70, are shown.
- Every quote was checked by code as an exact substring of the original text. Names of staff and family are redacted, and the deceased are named by report title only.
| Link | Meaning | Wording | Judge | Coroner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 → 2024 | 0.78 | 0.16 | Closely related · 0.85 | different |
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