A Longford teenager is lending her support to farm safety week to warn people about the dangers of gas from slurry agitating.
Ella Casey from Ballymahon was working on a local farm in August of 2021 when she had a very close call with the gas and was transferred to hospital by air ambulance.
Ella, who was brought up on a farm herself says she was aware of the dangers of the gas and had waited the recommended time before going back into a building after the agitating had stopped.
She still got caught however when she ducked her head to enter a part of the building and breathed in some of the highly toxic fumes.
Ella became unconscious almost immediately but had managed to make a phone call to her co-worker who was nearby.
He went looking for her after she didn't answer him when he replied, and he found her on the floor of the shed.
Ella was brought outside into the fresh air and thankfully went on to make a full recovery.
Speaking on the Lets Talk show today she says that she realises she was extremely lucky.
'If Keith didn't answer the phone , or if my phone was dead, or something like that, it would have been a very different story.
I went to hospital and I had a chest x-ray , I was okay, which is unbelievable when you think about the dangers that are there, and what could have possibly happened.
I definitely will always be more careful, for the rest of my life ,and tell everyone around me.
It struck me definitely in the days after, just how lucky I was, and how everything lined up so perfectly that I was okay in the end.'
