Electrician died after falling from potato box balanced on forklift truck at Yorkshire farm

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A 69-year-old self-employed electrician suffered fatal head injuries while carrying out a "dangerous activity" at a farm where he had worked for around 45-years, a jury inquest heard.

John Harvey was stood in a empty wooden potato box which was being lowered by a forklift truck at Church Farm in Darrington near Pontefract when the box slipped and he fell around 6ft to the ground, the jury at Wakefield Coroner's Court heard.

The inquest was told the potato box, which the jury heard weighed more than 100 kilos, then struck Mr Harvey on the head during the incident at the pig and arable farm on Philips Lane on October 20 2017.

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