An excellent report, published by the Caithness Windfarm information forum, has highlighted some of the problems beset by wind turbines.

Of the 53 fatalities:

• 39 were wind industry or support/development workers (maintenance/engineers, etc)
  and one farmer attempting to maintain his own turbine. Most common cause - falls
  from turbines. Included is one apparent suicide.
• 14 were public fatalities, of which three were from road accidents attributed to “driver
  distraction of turbines” by police, one was from a road accident in which a driver was
  killed in collision with a turbine transporter, one was in a transport accident in which
  the road collapsed and the driver drowned, one was from an aircraft accident which
  hit a new and unmarked anemometer, four were from an further aircraft accident
  which flew into a turbine in fog (one incident killing four people), one was a 16-year
  old boy strangled after his necktie became tangled around an unprotected turbine
  shaft, one was a farmer who killed himself due to the pressure of public opposition to
  his proposed wind turbines, one was electrocuted, and the remaining accident was
  the collision of a parachutist with a turbine.
• Click the icon to read the full report.
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