Two companies have been prosecuted for their lack of safety at a building site which led to a labourer being killed.
James Kelly, 50, died from injuries he sustained on the site at Glasgow Academy in Glasgow. He had fallen to the ground from the third floor of a scaffold on which he was working in April 2007.
Robertson Construction Central and Stirling Stone, for whom Mr Kelly worked, were found guilty of breaking health and safety law after a three-week trial at Glasgow Sheriff Court.
The case is the first to be resolved by trial rather than through a plea since the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service established its health and safety division.
Spokeswoman Elaine Taylor said after the case: “On 26 April 2007 James Kelly went to work and as a result of failings by his employer and the principal contractor on site, he never returned home.
“He left a family devastated by their loss.
“The incident that led to Mr Kelly’s death was entirely avoidable had the two accused met their statutory health and safety obligations.”
Medico-Legal News Source: Claims Management Magazine
