TWO WORK FATALITIES IN GALWAY LAST YEAR

Date Published: 03-Jan-2008

There were two work place deaths in Galway last year, one more than the previous year

The Health and Safety Authority says it’s concerned by the number of people who lost their lives at work

Nationally, workplace fatalities rose to 67, up from 50 in 2006

Farm deaths were down forty per cent but construction and fishing accounted for huge increases in the number of industrial deaths