Whiteinch Demolition fined after man dies removing excavator counterweight.
A Glasgow demolition contractor has been fined after a worker was killed when a weight from a face shovel machine fell on him, Construction Enquirer reports.
Bernard McCarroll, aged 68 years from Croy, was dismantling a hydraulic excavator at the company’s yard in Glasgow in May 2008 using a flame torch.
While flame cutting the bolts that held this weight to the frame of the machine, part of it fell onto McCarroll who suffered serious injuries and died.
A Health and Safety Executive investigation found the dismantling operation had not been properly risk assessed or planned by Whiteinch Demolition Limited.
The court was told that a safe system of work had not been provided to those carrying out the dismantling task.
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