Pile of beef fat saves worker in 20-foot fall

A VAT of cholesterol-laden meat fat helped save the life of a worker in Co Limerick.

He toppled nearly 20 feet into the container, but got a soft landing on a pile of beef fat at a meat plant in Rathkeale.

The injured man, who is from Co Wexford, was said to be in a stable condition at the Mid Western Regional Hospital yesterday.