Construction firm fined €75,000 after man killed on site

A construction company has been fined €75,000 under the Health and Safety Act arising out of an accident at a building site where a man was killed after a steel bar fell onto him.

Mr Edmund Christopher Meridith (aged 23), a carpet fitter, was killed when he was struck by a steel L-shaped angle that fell like "a spear or javelin" from the sixth storey of an apartment block off Dublin’s Pearse Street. His partner was expecting their second child at the time.