Warning over use of cable reels

The Health and Safety Authority has issued a warning, along with guidelines, about the dangers of using cable reels following an inquest in Limerick into the death of a 14-year-old boy on his grandfather’s farm.

The hearing into the death of Jack Lyons heard he was cleaning, with a friend, the inside of a cow shed with brushes when he decided to get a power hose.

While using the power hose, he received a fatal electric shock while holding the metal barrel of the hose.