Ireland’s Injuries Board Pays Out €268 Million in 2015

Ireland’s Injuries Board recently published its 2015 annual overview, which reveals that 33,561 new personal injury claims were submitted to the Board in 2015. This is a 6% increase over the previous year, which the board says reflects increased economic and social activity and is not unexpected given there are more people at work, higher […]

Farming Business Sentenced After Roof Fall Injury

A Perthshire farming business has been fined for safety failings after a worker was injured when he fell through a roof light of a cattle barn. The 18-year-old had been lifted by a colleague onto the roof in a basket attached to a telehandler forklift truck to carry out work clearing gutters. He walked to […]