The Health and Safety Authority has said it will not be conducting an investigation into the death of a 3½-year-old boy killed on a farm in Galway because it was a "domestic accident".
The boy died after he fell from a moving jeep on a farm at Ahascragh at around 6.15 p.m. on Monday.
The precise details of the incident are not yet known, but gardaí had referred the death to the HSA.
"The accident was at the home, it was a domestic accident and was not related to a workplace activity so we will not be conducting an investigation," the HSA said.
The boy was the second child to die on an Irish farm this year.
In April a 15-year-old boy died in an accident involving a tractor at his family's farm at Ballymacarbry, Co Waterford.
Seven people have died on farms so far this year and in the last 10 years, 45 children have lost their lives in farm accidents.
While he said he could not comment on the latest death, the chief executive of the Health and Safety Authority, Mr Tom Beegan, called on the farming community to "redouble" its safety efforts.
"I am very saddened by the level of childhood fatalities in agriculture.
"It is one of the only workplaces were there is a continued loss of children's lives."
He accepted that farms were unique, in that they were sometimes homes as well as workplaces.
However, he said accidents could be prevented if people took a bit of extra care.
"I am calling on farmers and farm leaders to redouble their efforts to make safety a priority.
"The human cost of farm accidents far outweighs the economic cost."
Children and the elderly are more likely to die in farm accidents.
Thirteen of the 19 people killed last year were either under 15 years of age or over 65.
It was possible that the prevalence of off-farm jobs resulted in more children and elderly people being left in charge on farms, Mr Beegan said.
The summer was a particularly high-risk time for farming accidents, he said.
"As well as the children being off school, it's a time when more relatives from town and cities visit farms and they may not necessarily see the dangers."
The HSA is running a TV advertising campaign to increase farm safety awareness.
