Jurors have been asked to decide between two versions of how it might have happened.
The site of the former Ironbridge Power Station. Photo: Giles Carey.
The three-day inquest at Shirehall, in Shrewsbury, heard that the only eyewitness, Robert Lynn, had told the Health & Safety Executive that his colleague had tripped. But at the witness stand he admitted lying and said he had been asked by Mr Wilson to stick to the story but was glad that the truth was out.
The jury of 10 men and women has been tasked with trying to decide how Mr Wilson had come by his injury. His death was attributed to pulmonary thromboembolism, a fractured right tibia and Covid-19. Medics concluded that his death was contributed to by an elevated body mass index and ventricular hypertrophy.
Mr Wilson had been taking down plastic sheeting in an operation to clear asbestos from the car park under the power station's administration block.
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