The mum of a farm worker who was strangled to death after his clothes got caught in machinery said ‘lessons must be learned’.

Alban Watts, 61, from Blencow, was killed on January 11, 2023, while working for Bell Mount Farming Limited, an egg producer in Great Salkeld in Penrith, Cumbria.

Mr Watts was working alone in one of the poultry sheds when his clothing came into contact with an unguarded sprocket during one of the feeding periods.

An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) – Britain’s national workplace health and safety regulator – found the guard designed to prevent such access was not fixed in place and could simply be lifted off.

Noreen, Mr Watts’s mother, has said lessons must be learned from his tragic death.

She said: ‘Mere words cannot express the horror

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