VIDEO: Waterford man critical after explosion at Youghal metal plant

The Health and Safety Authority are conducting an investigation after a young man was left critically ill following an explosion at his workplace in Youghal.

The man, in his early 20s and from the west Waterford village of Clashmore, had to be airlifted to Cork University Hospital yesterday morning from the nearby east Cork town.

It followed an incident at around 9.30am yesterday when he was working at B&C Services, a metal fabrication specialists located in a unit at the industrial estate on the Foxhole side of Youghal.