The Construction Safety Campaign (CSC) will hold a protest outside the construction site where Vincent Dooley, 54, resident of Old St from Co. Mayo, died when he fell while at work on Monday 4th Dec 2000. Vincent, a carpenter, was reportedly working for McDermott
Brothers Contractors.

This accident is just one of the latest in the increasing number of construction workers being killed at work. In London recently a diver working at the Canary Wharf site was killed and before that 3 men were killed in a crane collapse there.

Following this fatal accident in London a man has died and another was seriously injured after a crane collapsed at Sheffield United's Bramall Lane stadium on Tuesday 5th Dec 2000.

Theres been twice as many killed in the first six months of this year as were killed in the same period last year. Statistics released in November by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) show that 62 people died as a result of construction work during the first six months of this year compared with 39 deaths in the same period last year.


The CSC says this will not change until employers face prison for negligently killing their employees rather than receiving the paltry fines as they do currently. The average fine for killing a worker is still only a few thousand pounds.