A general operative at a powdered milk production plant has been awarded more than €268,000 by the High Court over an accident in which he partially fell into a hole at the plant.

The accident happened when married father-of-two, Joseph Coughlan was assisting in manoeuvring a large sheet of metal near a 20ft-deep hole in the Kerry Ingredients plant in Charleville, Co Cork, on July 23, 2017, where he worked for 22 years.

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