Man injured after timber delivery falls on him

A man was airlifted to hospital after a consignment of timber fell on him while he was making a delivery in Co Galway yesterday. 

The alarm was raised at 2.20pm following the incident which occurred at a house near Newtown about 3km from Gort.

It’s understood that the 27-year-old man had backed his truck into driveway at the front of the property and was unloading the timber when the accident happened. A pallet of timber is believed to have tipped over on top of the man trapping him beneath. The property owners quickly raised the alarm.