Palfinger Ireland fined €25,000 for health and safety breaches

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Palfinger Ireland Ltd was fined €25,000 for health and safety breaches at Limerick Circuit Court on 7 October 2022, after pleading guilty. The breaches concerned information supplied about a crane used in work on Thomond Bridge, where two stonemasons drowned on 29 August 2015.

This report covers an earlier stage of the case. Later developments are not reported here.