Machine operator and tyre worker killed at work

TWO workplace tragedies yesterday brought to 12 the number of industrial fatalities this year.

Stephen O’Flynn, 19, was crushed to death by a moving vehicle during his work at S Tyres Ltd on the Centre Park Road, Cork, at 9.20am.

A short time earlier, a 27-year-old Dublin man died on a building site in Bray, Co Wicklow when machinery came into contact with overhead electricity lines.