Man’s arm severed below elbow while loading feed from conveyer

Surgeons were last night attempting to reattach a man’s arm after it was sliced off in a workplace accident yesterday morning.

John Dineen, a livestock road haulage contractor, was loading animal feed from a conveyor machine into a truck at Dan O’Connor Feeds, Limerick, when the incident occurred at about 8am.

Gerry Clifford, manager of Dan O’Connor Feeds, said everyone at the plant was “shocked”.