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HGV driver crushed by textile rolls
Irish Daily Star
|March 19, 2025
AN Irish HGV driver was crushed to death by falling rolls of textile membrane a few years before he was planning to retire, an inquest heard yesterday.
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George Tracey, 57, was helping unload the heavy 3.5-tonne cylinder-shaped rolls, used in groundwork, from the side of a wagon at a depot in Irlam, Salford, UK on November 11, 2021.
He was pronounced dead at the scene at JC Gillespie Ltd on Sorby Road.
This story is from the March 19, 2025 edition of Irish Daily Star.
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