The family of a man who died in hospital a fortnight after falling from a ladder while installing a ventilation duct to a Cork city building, has settled a High Court action for \u20ac300,000.<\/p>\n
58-year-old Pawel Kulesza from Poland suffered a head injury after he fell from the ladder at the Marina Market, Centre Park Road, Cork city on 8 October 2021.<\/p>\n
He died on 26 October.<\/p>\n
His family had sued various parties over the death, including his employer BCL Ventilation Ltd, with offices at Little Island, Cork. The settlement was made without admission of liability.<\/p>\n
In the proceedings, it was alleged against BCL Ventilation Ltd that there was a failure to ensure the ladder was constructed, inspected, maintained or repaired adequately or at all. It was further claimed there was an alleged failure to ensure a safe place of work and provide a safe system of work.<\/p>\n
The claims were denied.<\/p>\n
The court heard there were issues in relation to alleged contributory negligence on the part of Mr Kulesza in the relation to a helmet he had been supplied with but had not worn, and the provision of a platform which he had not used, instead using a ladder.<\/p>\n
The settlement of the proceedings was reached without an admission of liability and brings to four the number of actions now resolved over the accident.<\/p>\n
The court was told that Mr Kulesza’s wife and children have also settled nervous shock actions in relation to the incident.<\/p>\n
The case was before the court for the division of the \u20ac35,000 mental distress payment only.<\/p>\n
Noting the settlement and approving the division of the statutory payment, Mr Justice Paul Coffey said it was a very tragic case and said the family’s agony had been prolonged for a number of weeks after the accident.<\/p>\n
The judge expressed his deepest sympathy to the family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The family of a man who died in hospital a fortnight after falling from a ladder while installing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-404624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404624","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=404624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}