`Live' light fitting killed electrician

The Health and Safety Authority is preparing a report on the death of a Dublin electrician who was electrocuted in a factory.

The Health and Safety Authority is preparing a report on the death of a Dublin electrician who was electrocuted in a factory.

Mr John Hudson (43), a father of four, from St John's Drive, Clondalkin, was dead on admission to St James's Hospital on September 21st last year after the accident in the Rathfarnham premises of Van Den Burgh Foods Ltd, a subsidiary of Unilever, an inquest at Dublin City Coroner's Court was told.

Mr John Harrington, of the HAS, said that the light fitting Mr Hudson was working on had been incorrectly wired and was "live".

A post-mortem found that he died of cardiac arrhythmia due to electrocution.

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The jury returned a verdict of accidental death.