Company fined €90,000 for health and safety breaches uncovered during HSA investigation of workplace fatality

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Pat Lacey (53) was fatally injured when he was struck by the grab of a Caterpillar wheel loaded in 2019

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Defence counsel Tom Creed SC said the company was long established, having been formed from the merger of two family-owned businesses going back over 30 years. It had never previously come to the attention of the HSA. But even prior to the accident the company had put a series of safety measures in place including a designated walkway across the timber yard, but the problem was that the company had failed to ensure employees always used it, he said.Compliance manager with GP Wood, Conor McSweeney confirmed to the court that extensive work had taken place to improve safety and that it included a floodlit barriered walkway that is separate from the work area for vehicles such as the Caterpillar log loader.

She said that in fairness to the defendant company there was an absence of aggravating factors in the case and that was to the defendant’s credit. “Many of these cases involve companies taking shortcuts to increase their profits – that is not present here,” Judge Boyle said.

 

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