Cork farmer fined €10,000 after death of pipe-laying contractor on his farm
A Cork farmer has been fined €10,000 following a guilty plea to a breach of the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005.
The case arose following an incident in September 2017 on a farm in Coachford when a man was fatally injured when a trench, in which he was laying pipes as part of drainage works, collapsed in and engulfed him.
A farmer pleaded guilty to a breach of the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 and was fined €10,000, while a person operating the excavator at the time of the incident also pleaded guilty to another breach of the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 and was fined €1,000.
The HSA have issued a statement to RedFM News and say it's important that safe systems of work are in place to ensure that persons carrying out the work can do so in a safe manner.
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