All-island organisation accused of failing to ensure people not exposed to risks and over injuries sustained by Elias Adane in January 2020
Organisation charged with failing to ensure people not exposed to risks and over injuries sustained by Elias Adane in January 2020Elias Adane, who is in his 30s and originally from Eritrea, sustained life-changing injuries in the incident on the Grand Canal in Dublin in January 2020. Photograph: Dara Mac DónaillWaterways Ireland faces criminal proceedings after a homeless man was paralysed when a digger cleared his tent from the banks of the Grand Canal in Dublin.
Mr Adane, who came to Ireland as an unaccompanied minor and has periods of homelessness, had been sleeping in a tent at Wilton Terrace near Leeson Street Bridge for months. He spent weeks in St Vincent’s hospital after being injured in the incident before moving to the National Rehabilitation Hospital while new accommodation was arranged.
The offences are under the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 and include allegations of a failure to check if Mr Adane’s tent was occupied when it was removed “by means of a mechanical grab”.
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