SIPTU has requested an urgent meeting with Stryker management after a workplace accident at the firm’s Carrigtwohill plant left one employee fighting for their life. The union has also asked the firm to improve safety on all three of its Cork sites. A Health and Safety Authority investigation is continuing into the incident, which saw two men suffer burns.

The Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union (SIPTU) has requested an urgent meeting with Stryker management to address safety concerns following a workplace incident that left a man fighting for his life in hospital. The incident occurred at Stryker’s Anngrove site in Carrigtwohill, County Cork on Tuesday, resulting in two men suffering suspected burns. One of the men, a 41-year-old married father with a young family, underwent emergency surgery and was placed on life support at Cork University Hospital. Siptu sector organiser Neil McGowan expressed the union’s sympathy for the two workers and their families and said that “we want to ensure that the best safety systems possible are in place across the sites.”