A man aged in his 50s who died in a farm accident in Waterford has been named locally.<\/p>\n
James Doherty from Ballyrobin, Ferrybank, which is on the Kilkenny\/Waterford border, died on Sunday as a result of the incident involving farm machinery.<\/p>\n
He is survived by his partner Lorna, brothers John, Eamonn and Pat, sisters Bridget, Eileen, Mairead and Maria, uncle Willie Doherty, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, nieces, nephews, relatives and friends.<\/p>\n
His body was removed to University Hospital Waterford (UHW) where a post mortem examination will be carried out.<\/p>\n
In a statement, garda\u00ed said that they attended the scene of a \u201cmedical incident\u201d at a premises in Ballyrobin, Ferrybank, Co Waterford, on Sunday.<\/p>\n
As is protocol, both garda\u00ed and the Health and Safety Authority are investigating the incident.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed added: \u201cThe man was pronounced deceased at the scene. The Health and Safety Authority (HSA) has been notified. A file will be prepared for the coroner.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Health and Safety Authority (HSA) explained it is aware of the incident and has launched an investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man aged in his 50s who died in a farm accident in Waterford has been named locally.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-466746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466746","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=466746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}