Irish Distillers have been fined €40,000 following an employee fatality.
Irish Distillers have been fined €40,000 following an employee fatality. Today at Cork Circuit Court, Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin imposed the fine on Irish Distillers Ltd following guilty pleas to breaches of the Safety, Health & Welfare at Work Act 2005 and the Safety, Health & Welfare at Work General Application Regulations 2007*. The case arose following a fatal accident on March 12th, 2018 when an employee was staging whiskey casks at Dungourney warehouses complex, in Cork. He suffered fatal injuries when a forklift involved in the staging process came in contact with him. Sp...
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