Two die in work accidents

A CONSTRUCTION worker on the Cork Main Drainage Scheme was killed instantly yesterday when a dumper driven by one of his colleagues overturned, rolled down an embankment and pinned him underneath.

Kieran Brown, 44, from Araglin, near Mitchelstown, was working in small trench at the base of an embankment at a drainage scheme construction site on the Skehard Road in Mahon when the accident occurred at 1.45pm yesterday. Mr Brown, who was married, was an employee of McGinty and O’Shea Ltd, one of 18 contractors working on the drainage scheme for Cork Corporation.

Yesterday gardaí and two inspectors from the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) began two separate investigations into the tragic accident, which brings this year’s construction-related death toll to 12.