Derek McLean, 43, was fatally injured after attempting to move a 3.5 tonne demolition machine up a set of stairs by remote control. He was operating the machine, which moves on tracks, while standing behind it instead of in front.
A construction worker who was crushed to death at the St Enoch shopping centre may have lived if he had operated a machine correctly, a sheriff has ruled.
Sheriff Joan Kerr said McLean could still be alive if he had not entered the 'risk zone' of the machine and if he had pressed the stop button on the remote control. The sheriff found there were no defaults in any system of working and that there were no other precautions which could have been taken. "There were no other precautions which could reasonably have been taken which might realistically have resulted in the accident or death being avoided."
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