A Scottish civil engineering contractor has been fined £800,000 for safety breaches after a 10-year-old boy sustained fatal injuries while playing on a building site in Glasgow.
The Construction Index writes:
{The] Ten-year-old….went out to play with his friends on the evening of 16th July 2020 and got onto the construction site where he was able to enter an access chamber. He then fell down the chamber. Emergency services and local residents raced to the scene and rescued Shea but he died from his injuries.
The construction site was part of a surface water management project being carried out next to Glenkirk Drive in the Drumchapel area of Glasgow for Glasgow City Council.
An investigation by Police Scotland and the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) found that insufficient measures had been taken to prevent children gaining access to the construction site.
The HSE investigation also found that RJ McLeod (Contractors) Limited, the company in charge of the site, had failed to carry out a suitable and sufficient assessment of the risk of unauthorised persons gaining access to the site, which resulted in a failure to adequately inspect and maintain suitable perimeter fencing, and install other suitable security measures.
J McLeod (Contractors) Limited, of London Road, Glasgow, pleaded guilty… The company was fined £800,000 and ordered to pay a victim surcharge….
