Man crushed to death at Kinsale grain facility

AN investigation was launched in Kinsale, Co Cork, after a truck driver was crushed to death while handling newly-harvested grain yesterday.

The man, named locally as John Rice, 42, is understood to have become trapped between the rear of his lorry and specialist grain-feeding machinery at a milling company in the Co Cork town at 12.45pm yesterday.

His workmates attempted to revive him before emergency crews arrived, but he was pronounced dead shortly afterwards.