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Article

5 Jan 2012

Author:
Charlie Taylor, Irish Times

Rise in workplace deaths with farms to fore once again [Ireland]

The number of work-related deaths recorded last year rose by 15 per cent…New figures from the Health and Safety Authority show there were 55 workplace deaths in 2011, compared to 48 in 2010…“This is the second year in a row that the total number of workplace fatalities has increased. The fact is that behind these statistics there are human tragedies, lives lost and families ruined,” said the authority’s chief executive Martin O’Halloran. “Everyone has the right to go to work without danger to their safety or health,” he added. The agriculture sector accounted for more than a third of all work-related deaths last year with 22 fatalities…the second largest number of work-place deaths...was in the transport and storage sector where eight fatalities took place…In the construction sector there were six deaths…