Motor parts distribution company fined after Polish worker dies

A motor parts distribution company has been fined €75,000 at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court today in relation to the death of a Polish employee who fell from a metal cage in a “reckless practice” the company condoned.

DAF Sales Ltd at Baldonnell Business Park, Dublin 22, pleaded guilty to failing to provide for articles that were safe and without risk to health in that a metal cage lifted by a forklift was not designed for carriage of persons and had no means to control the forklift from within the cage and no means to securely attach the cage to a forklift truck and as a consequence Mr David Kwiatkowski suffered personal injury and died.