Hi all,

Just to give a bit of background to this story, basically the government over here(Ireland) decided to build a tunnel to link Dublin Port with the M50 motorway that goes around the city to cut down on the amount of trucks going through the city.

Anyway, I read in a newspaper last Monday that a Polish worker on the project was seriously injured when he used a hacksaw to cut through a conduit in the tunnel which happened to have a 10KV cable inside it. Apparantly nobody knew what the pipe was for so they cut it anyway. The paper said that somebody from the constuction company had been sacked following the accident. They didn't say who but I'm thinking it was the Polish guys supervisor who told him to cut the pipe.

It's hard to believe that something so stupid could happen. Nobody took the time to try and find out what the pipe was and it's only luck that the Polish guy wasn't killed.

Ross