The local Coroner and the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) have been notified.

The HSA says their latest figures show a “concerning rise in (workplace) fatalities”, particularly among the self-employed and farmers.

The incident occurred at 11.30am on Tuesday in Ardfinnan.

Alan Mulhall (34) was fatally injured when a low voltage switchgear weighing 760kg fell and struck his head

The court heard that a site engineer who should have been on-site to supervise this work had left at midday despite being contracted to be present

The new campaign highlights the growing need for vigilance in industries where employees may be particularly vulnerable to work-related violence from the public, such as healthcare, retail, hospitality, and public services, the HSA said.

Emergency services were called to a premises close to the town of Tullow however the man was pronounced dead at the scene.

The two men, aged in their 60s and 50s, sustained head and other injuries during the workplace accident, around lunchtime, at a farm at Aradgh, in west county Limerick.

The incident occurred on Thursday afternoon in the village of Freshford, in the north of the county.

The 17-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene on Thursday afternoon

Wicklow County Council employee Vincent O’Brien was working as a caretaker at a water treatment plant when the fatal incident occurred

Shane Bellew-Reilly (23) died following an incident involving a forklift truck at the Panda waste recycling plant in Finglas

Oliver Forde (six) got into difficulty while playing in the swimming pool at Tullamore Court Hotel

EW Technologies pleaded guilty to failing to provide adequate fall prevention measures at a warehouse in Blanchardstown Corporate Park

Christopher Miley (31) died at a quarry and recycling facility in Rathcoole, Co Dublin in October 2021

An employee of the Co Tipperary firm suffered serious injuries when his right hand was amputated while clearing a blockage of cement from an auger

The incident occurred on Saturday afternoon at a farmyard in Enniscorthy, Co Wexford

John McCann (62) fell to his death through an inadequately signed fragile surface on the sixth-floor of Ove Arup and Partners Ireland Ltd, Ringsend Road, Dublin 4 on September 23rd 2019.

Oliver Forde (six) died two days after he got into difficulty while swimming in a hotel pool in Co Offaly

The general secretary of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) Phil Ní Sheaghdha has called for stronger powers for statutory agencies to implement recommendations from reports

Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard that the main deck loader, a moving platform for unloading cargo, was 2.7 metres away from the aircraft door when Mr Gracey fell and that this gap should have been no more than three inches.

Construction and farming ed for almost three quarters of the total.

Investigations into the incident will be carried out by gardaí and the Health and Safety Authority (HSA)

Ten people died in the explosion in Co Donegal on October 7th.

The building remains cordoned off with speculation that it may have to be demolished in some form when the investigation into the cause of the explosion is completed

This comes as figures reveal that over five nurses were physically, verbally or sexually assaulted a day in the month of June

Richard Gracey (64) was seriously injured from a fall at the doorway of a cargo plane on November 24th, 2018