Stryker charged over alleged health and safety breaches after worker’s death at Cork plant
Stryker Ireland Ltd is facing legal charges following a Health and Safety Authority investigation into the 2023 death of a contractor at its Cork plant. The company is accused of failing to manage safety risks related to titanium particles entering the facility's ventilation system.
Why it matters
The case highlights corporate accountability and the enforcement of workplace safety regulations in the medical device manufacturing sector.
A leading US medical devices technology company has been charged with breaches of health and safety regulations over the death of a contractor’s employee who suffered fatal burn injuries while carrying out work at one of its plants in Co Cork more than three years ago.
Stryker Ireland Ltd was summonsed to appear at Midleton District Court on Thursday following a Health and Safety Authority (HSA) investigation into the death of John Murphy (41), a father of three who died from injuries sustained while carrying out at work at Stryker’s plant at Carrigtwohill in east Cork.
Murphy from Condonstown, Watergrasshill, Co Cork, suffered third-degree burns to 75 per cent of his body in the incident while working for facilities management company Apleona, which was doing contract work for Stryker at Anngrove, IDA Industrial Park, Carrigtwohill, on April 18th, 2023.
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