A HOPS grower has pleaded guilty to workplace offences following the death of a man on his family farm.
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A 47-year-old man died in hospital on March 23 last year after falling from a trailer.
The trailer was being towed by a tractor at the Myrrhee hop farm on Upper Fifteen Mile Creek Road.
The man was flown to hospital in Melbourne but died.
Neville Handcock appeared before the Wangaratta Magistrates Court on Thursday.
The 58-year-old pleaded guilty to one charge, relating to two contraventions of providing safe systems of work without risks of death.
The matter will return to the Wodonga County Court on October 22.
Speaking at the time of the incident, WorkSafe spokeswoman Marnie Williams said tractors were involved in more farm deaths than any other equipment.
