Worker dies after trench collapses on building site

A MAN who died when a trench collapsed on a building site was the 20th person to die in the construction industry this year.

The death of a man in his 60s, at a new housing site in Dunleer, Co Louth, was also the second tragedy this week involving a trench caving in. Shocked fellow workers made desperate attempts to rescue the man before his body was recovered by the emergency services.

Earlier this week, father-of-five Brian Colton, 34, from Glaslough, Co Monaghan, died in a trench after being trapped by steel plates and other building material on a street repair scheme in Ballymun, Dublin.