{"id":228480,"date":"2025-12-12T02:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T02:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/228480\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T02:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T02:35:07","slug":"hsa-investigating-death-from-collapsing-wall-in-west-cork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/228480\/","title":{"rendered":"HSA investigating death from collapsing wall in West Cork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Health and Safety Authority (HSA) has launched an investigation after a man died when a wall collapsed on him near Bandon, West Cork, on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>A second man was also injured in the incident which occurred in Kilmore at about 4pm. It is understood the men were building a wall when it fell on top of them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> The emergency services and garda\u00ed responded to an emergency call. A 50-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene. The second man is being treated for serious injuries at Cork University Hospital (CUH).<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A spokesman for the HSA confirmed that an investigation into the incident has been launched.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> \u201cThe HSA is aware of the fatal incident and has launched an investigation. As such, no further information is available at this time,&#8221; the spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">An autopsy will be carried out at CUH. The local coroner has been notified, and an inquest will be held in due course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> The name of the deceased man is being withheld pending the notification of family members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Health and Safety Authority (HSA) has launched an investigation after a man died when a wall collapsed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[781,9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-228480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-cork-news","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115704268331525400","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}