The Health and Safety Executive inspector, in evidence, agreed that the method adopted in pulling back the sheets was common practice in the industry and provided a number of suggestions as to how the sheets could be removed from the top of the silage in a safer manner. However Sheriff Kelly felt that some suggestions posed further hazards, including trip hazards from ropes or the possibility of a hook or crooks tearing the sheets posing further risk of tripping. He said: "Neither could therefore be advanced as reasonable precautions whereby the death might have been avoided without further testing as to their efficacy." He did add that a reasonable precaution whereby the death might have been avoided would have been that of keeping a safe distance from the edge of the silage pile. - See more at: http://www.shponline.co....ath#sthash.jJVOvQyR.dpuf