Firefighter settles action over shoulder injury suffered while pulling ambulance trolley

He claimed the city council failed, among other things, to provide a safe place of work or to train him properly in the use of the trolley

The trolley was being guided out of the basement by Mr Finnerty and a colleague to urgently get a 96-year-old man who had gone into cardiac arrest into the ambulance for oxygen. File picture

A settlement has been reached in an action brought by a firefighter working with the Dublin ambulance service over a shoulder injury he claimed he suffered while pulling a trolley.

Mark Finnerty claimed he pulled his shoulder when the trolley hit an obstruction in a doorway of a basement entrance to a nursing home. The trolley was being guided out of the basement by Mr Finnerty and a colleague to urgently get a 96-year-old man who had gone into cardiac arrest into the ambulance for oxygen.