THE Health and Safety Authority (HSA) has confirmed that it has launched an investigation following the tragic death of a farmer in Co. Cork over the past few days.
It’s understood the farmer, who was in his early 70s, died after being crushed in a incident with a bull in a shed at his farm near Enniskeane, Co. Cork on Friday, April 14.
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He was discovered by a vet who arrived at the scene, as he had been called out prior to the incident to attend to the bull.
Gardaí confirmed that the local coroner was notified and the man’s body was taken to Cork University Hospital for a post-mortem examination.
The farmer has been named locally as Joseph Shorten from Castletown-Kenneigh.
He is survived by his wife, Joan, and his siblings, Mary, Ben, and Robert, and extended family.
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