Fines totalling €20,000 were handed down to Derry White Skip Hire Ltd and one of its Directors, Mr. Derry White, by Judge Carl Moran in the Limerick Circuit Court on 7th February 2012. The case arose following an accident in 2009 when one of the company’s employees, Jason Dunleavy, had his left arm amputated by [...]

During a recent inquest at Dublin City Coroner’s Court, it emerged that a report warning of incidents of falling scaffolding had been given to site management days before a man was killed at the site in Finglas. The inquest heard that despite the contractors being given a copy of the report, no action was taken [...]

The Circuit Civil Court has dismissed a case involving a worker who fell off her office chair and was suing for €38,000 in damages. Karen O’Toole (43), of Eastham Court, Bettystown, Co Meath, had claimed that on January 12, 2009 she had been attending a meeting at her workplace, Sonopress Ireland Ltd, when the accident [...]

This photo was recently taken at a filling station in Waterford.  It shows two workers standing on a ladder which has been set up on the roof of a van.  The workers were carrying out some work to the filling station canopy and set about using the van as an extension for their ladder in [...]

On Tuesday, 25th October 2011, the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton was asked by Sinn Féin T.D. Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin as to whether he believed current regulations surrounding machine safety, and in particular regarding local exhaust ventilation were sufficient to protect employees from the harmful effects of exposure to substances that cause [...]