A Kildare company has been fined \u20ac225,000 following the death of a worker more than five and a half years ago.<\/p>\n
Kildare Chilling Company pleaded guilty to three charges of breaching safety, health and welfare legislation.<\/p>\n
On the morning of 14 May 2020, at the firm’s premises on Curragh Road in Kildare town, Binak Cokaj suffered fatal head injuries after the lid of a vacuum packing machine closed on him.<\/p>\n
He was working as a packer at the time.<\/p>\n
At Kildare Circuit Court, sitting in Naas, Judge Elva Duffy imposed the fine of \u20ac225,000.<\/p>\n
The case was taken by the Health and Safety Authority (HSA).<\/p>\n
Reacting to the outcome, HSA Chief Executive Mark Cullen said: “A worker tragically lost his life in circumstances that should never occur in any workplace.<\/p>\n
“Employers have a clear legal duty to ensure that machinery is properly maintained, inspected and kept in a safe condition at all times.<\/p>\n
“Failure to do so exposes workers to unacceptable risks.<\/p>\n
“Today’s outcome highlights the serious consequences when these responsibilities are not met.”<\/p>\n
It is the second time that Kildare Chilling Company has been taken to court in relation to a workplace fatality.<\/p>\n
In January 2022, the company was fined \u20ac400,000 at Naas Circuit Court following the death of an employee who was struck and crushed by a mobile forklift truck on 15 February 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Kildare company has been fined \u20ac225,000 following the death of a worker more than five and a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-248396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}