Health and Safety Executive

Fine after steel beam causes fatal injury

HSE warned road haulage and steel fabrication companies of the importance of having properly secured heavy loads, following the death of a driver in Leith.

Steel fabrication company, McDonald and Ross Ltd, and a road haulage sole trader, Ron Boyd Trading, were today fined a total of £37,500 at Edinburgh Sheriff Court. Mr Nicholas McKellar age 45, died after a steel beam weighing almost 1000kg fell from a vehicle as it was being unloaded, on 10 October 2005.

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