Key Waste Management fined €60,000 over fatal safety breach

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Key Waste Management Limited was fined €60,000 for failing to provide a safe system of work. The case was heard at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on 30 October 2020.

The company pleaded guilty to one charge under the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005.

On 18 March 2016, at Greenhills Road, Walkinstown, Dublin 12, pedestrian workers sorting waste in a shed were not segregated from an operating telehandler. An employee suffered injuries and died as a consequence, according to the Health and Safety Authority’s 2020 annual report.