Firm fined £860,000 for death of Shea Ryan, 10, at Glasgow construction site
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dailyrecord.co.ukA firm whose failure to implement safety measures led to the tragic death of a young boy was fined £860,000 today.Contractors RJ McLeod were responsible for a construction site that Shea Ryan was able to enter in Glasgow's Drumchapel on July 16 2020.
The 10-year-old bypassed insecure fencing before sitting beside an open manhole cover situated 60 metres from a children's play park.
Shea said to other kids there that he "wanted to go down." Prosecutor Saud Ul-Hassan told Glasgow Sheriff Court: “Shea began to climb down the ladder where he slipped and fell.
From the position of the ladder, he fell to the water below.”The distance between the ladder and the bottom of the manhole was 6.3 metres.
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