Two farm workers drowned in pig muck after entering a slurry tank to remove a blockage, an inquest has found.
Alexander Forman, 32, and Richard Pooley, 36, collapsed and fell into the liquid after being overcome by fumes.
The pair had been working on Newlands Farm in Holderness, East Yorkshire, in December 2015.
Dr Richard Shepherd told Hull Coroner's Court that the men inhaled the pig manure, but would have been unconscious due to the toxic fumes from the waste.
Mr Forman's partner Lucy Hartlebury-Forman told the inquest into the tragedy how she was asked to go to the farm on December 14, 2015.
She said: 'I thought it was an elaborate proposal plot, then I saw Susan [his mum]. She was in floods of tears.'
Ms Hartlebury-Forman said her partner was a hardworking family man, and described him as a 'doting dad' to their 10-month-old son Felix.
Mr Pooley's partner, Amanda Pooley said she had called him just a few hours before the tragedy.
She used the loudspeaker on her phone to enable their three-year-old son Josh, to talk with his father.
Ms Pooley said: 'Josh told him, "Love you Daddy".'
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