A Welsh farmer who was a "significant member" of the rural community died when a bull crushed him against a brick wall, an inquest heard. Maldwyn Harries, 58, was killed at his farm at Cefn Rhiwlas near Llandeilo on September 23 as he worked alongside his wife and son.
Mr Harries, his son Mark, wife Gillian, and a farm vet were testing the farm animals for TB on the Friday morning. Mrs Harries told Paul Bennett, the acting senior coroner for Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire, that her husband had tried to push the bull backwards out of a stall and into a crush in order for it to be tagged by the vet. The bull was used to going through the yard and milking parlour twice a day and had already been through the crush that day, she said.
Simon Breen, from the Health and Safety Executive, was also at the inquest held at Llanelli Town Hall on Friday. He explained how Mr Harries had been in the stall next to the bull and had tapped it on the nose to encourage it to reverse out.
