Man (35) dies in workplace incident at Cork factory

Bandon man fatally injured when caught in factory machine on Wednesday morning

Google street view of Architectural and Metal Systems at Wallingstown in Little Island where a 35-year-old man has died in an industrial incident. Source: Google street view
Google street view of Architectural and Metal Systems at Wallingstown in Little Island where a 35-year-old man has died in an industrial incident. Source: Google street view

Gardaí and the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) have begun separate investigations into the death of a 35-year-old man in an industrial accident in a factory in Cork overnight.

James Moore, a married father of two from Thornfields in Bandon in west Cork, was fatally injured when caught in a machine at Architectural and Metal Systems at Wallingstown in Little Island at about 1.30am.

First aid

The company manufactures aluminium products. It is understood the man was working on a machine to extrude aluminium when the incident occurred and he was fatally injured.

He was discovered by a colleague who raised the alarm. First aid was administered by colleagues before he was pronounced dead. His body was removed to Cork University Hospital for an autopsy.

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Gardaí and HSA inspectors visited the accident scene.

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Barry Roche

Barry Roche

Barry Roche is Southern Correspondent of The Irish Times