A Dublin docker who contracted dermatitis while handling wooden electricity poles saturated with creosote has been awarded £28,000 damages in the Circuit Civil Court against Dublin Port Stevedores Ltd.
Mr John Nolan, counsel for the injured stevedore, Mr Gerard Carrick, had told the court that 14 other dock workers had been injured and his client's action was a test case to determine liability as among four defendants.
Judge Desmond Hogan dismissed actions against T.V. McGee and Co, Mullaharlin, Dundalk, Co Louth, which imported the poles; the ESB, which had bought them, and Unipole Forest Products, the Turkish manufacturers.