Engineering group to pay out after worker crushed by stairs

An engineering company has been fined €15,000 arising out of a fatal accident five years ago at a south Dublin site in which a construction worker was crushed to death after three flights of stairs collapsed.

Thomas O’Neill (aged 31), died from crush injuries when three flights of stairs, weighing two tonnes each, collapsed due to a design flaw in the "anchors" or bolts holding the staircase to the walls of the building at South Lotts Office Development, South Lotts Road, Ringsend on December 12, 2002.