A verdict of accidental death was returned by a jury in the inquest into the death of a university employee who died when he was crushed under the front wheel of a cherry picker while working on campus.
58-year-old Frank McGrath, from Richmond Hill in Cork, who worked at University College Cork, died on 5 March 2013.
A post-mortem examination found he died from severe trauma to the chest, shock, and haemorrhage, consistent with a tyre running over his chest.
The inquest could not establish why Mr McGrath came close to the cherry picker before being crushed beneath it.
However, City Coroner Dr Myra Cullinane was told that he had not been trained to act as a warning man for a cherry picker and that there was a significant "blind spot" of up to 46m ahead of the vehicle, given the position the operator's basket was in at the time.
The accident happened during routine lighting maintenance work.
Mr John Punch, who was operating the cherry picker, said that one moment he could see Mr McGrath walking in front of the machine, and the next he heard a shout, and realised there had been an accident.
Following a lengthy HSA investigation, UCC pleaded guilty at Cork Circuit Criminal Court last year to two breaches of health and safety legislation.
The university was fined €80,000.
UCC's Director of Buildings and Estates Mark Poland told the inquest that the college has now introduced several new policies and procedures, including the training of specific signalling training for staff using cherry pickers.
A tree has been planted on the grounds of UCC in memory of Mr McGrath, who was a popular member of staff and a member of UCC's governing body.
