WELD COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — An expert on agriculture safety says incidents like the one that claimed the lives of six people at a Weld County dairy farm this week are not uncommon in the industry.

David Douphrate, a member of CSU’s High Plains Intermountain Center for Agriculture Health and Safety and current professor at Texas A&M University, understands better than most just how dangerous farming can be.

“Agriculture, forestry and fishing has the highest fatality rate among all industrial sectors," Douphrate said.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, between 2016 and 2020, the agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting industry saw just shy of 3,000 total fatal accidents on the job. Douphrate says among livestock farms, many of those accidents involve hydrogen sulfide, but six

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