A county council road worker died after being crushed under the tracks of a giant earthmover, the opening of the inquest into his death heard yesterday in Killarney.
Timothy Morley (50), a father of two, Blackwater, Killarney, was working on the road at Eirk near Moll's Gap, on the Ring of Kerry, on February 12th last when the accident occurred, coroner Terence Casey said.
Yesterday's proceedings were opened for the purposes of issuing a death certificate only, he said.
The matter was still under investigation by the Health and Safety Authority and it was anticipated a file would be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions in the next few weeks, Garda Supt Michael Maher said.
The postmortem, conducted at Kerry General Hospital on February 13th, found extensive crushing and bruising injuries on the body, consistent with track marks.
There were also severe internal injuries.
Mr Casey certified the cause of death as having occurred because of multiple injuries and adjourned the matter to the September sittings for mention.