The Health and Safety Authority and gardaí are investigating today after a man died in a workplace accident in Enniskeane this morning.

Emergency services were called to the grounds of a sawmill shortly after 8am, after a man sustained serious injuries at the workplace.

Gardai, ambulance and fire crews attended the scene but the man was pronounced dead at the scene.

His body was taken to Cork University Hospital (CUH) for a post-mortem.