Keywords: scaffold collapse, Beechwood Development Company, Easter Road Stadium, Deborah Services, injured worker,

Firms pay £132,000 for scaffold collapse

Prosecutions and Claims |
01.12.2006

Two companies have received fines totalling £132,000 after an overloaded scaffold collapsed dramatically, injuring a construction worker.

On 24 May 2005, subcontractor Paul Laidlaw was working on a loading-bay tower at a luxury-housing development near Edinburgh's Easter Road Stadium. ...

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