Image: Shutterstock Image: Shutterstock AVIATION FIRM SWISSPORT is facing trial over the death of a worker at Dublin Airport almost four years ago who fell from a plane doorway.
Richard Gracey, 64, who lived in Balbriggan in north County Dublin but originally from the Andersonstown area in Belfast, was seriously injured from a fall at the doorway of a cargo plane on 24 November 2018.The Health and Safety Authority conducted an investigation resulting in charges being brought against his employer Swissport Ireland Ltd.
It is accused of failing to provide adequate fall prevention measures at Terminal 2 when Mr Gracey was working at the cargo doorway of an Air France plane.The company is part of an international network providing airport ground, lounge hospitality and cargo handling services.
The charges are under the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005, but the company has not yet indicated how it will plead.
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