Three companies have been fined a total of €32,000 for health and safety related breaches following the death of a 31 year old electrician in Mayo last year.
Lorcan Deasy, from Errew, Castlebar, sustained serious head injuries when he fell from a height at the CMS Distribution plant in Kiltimagh, Mayo on January 15, 2018. He died in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, seven days later.
Mr Deasy was working for Ivan Kelly Electrics, Kiltimagh at CMS facility when the accident occurred.
As a result of the tragedy, prosecutions were brought by the Health and Safety Authority against CMS Distribution, Ivan Kelly Electrics and Vincent Burke Construction, Cloonlee, Knock.
All three defendants appeared before Castlebar Circuit Criminal Court for sentencing today.
Legal representatives for the companies expressed profound regret for safety breaches and told the court that measures had been taken to ensure they would not be repeated.
Prior to imposing penalties, Judge Rory McCabe commented that Mr Deasy "need not have lost his life on this day but he did. He went to work and didn't come home".
CMS Distribution was fined €2,000 for its failure to appoint in writing a competent project supervisor.
The judge said he assessed Ivan Kelly's culpability at a higher level and fined him €10,000 on each of two health and safety breaches relating to having an unsafe system at work resulting in death.
The third defendant Vincent Burke was fined €10,000 for not having a warning sign on scaffolding. Had he done so, the risk would have been significantly reduced, the judge said.
Judge McCabe imposed costs totalling €3,867.14 on the defendants.
He expressed his personal sympathy to the family of the deceased.
