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12.04.2023 - 15:51 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A boy fell through a manhole cover to his death after a contractor failed to implement adequate safety measures. Shea Ryan, 10, slipped on a ladder inside the hole close to a play park near his home in Glasgow’s Drumchapel on July 16, 2020.
Shea was able to enter a construction site through an insecure fence before sitting beside the open cover 60 metres from the park. He told other children: “I want to go down.”
The prosecutor said: “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.
The other children raised the alarm and Shea’s stepdad Graham Patterson entered the manhole. Police attended and officers found Shea lying on his back with Mr Patterson and a neighbour beside him. The prosecutor said: “Shea was seen to have severe head injuries, cold to the touch and was not breathing.”
An officer brought Shea to the surface and performed CPR before he was taken to the Royal Children’s Hospital but he could not be saved. The cause of death was noted as 'head injury by drowning'.
An investigation carried out stated that the company “failed to undertake a full assessment on the work area and consider its close proximity to the nearby play park and the risk of children being attracted to the site as well as identify the measures to prevent unauthorised access.”
The company was also found not to have kept the existing measures under review. They were further criticised for not having double fencing on the area of the site.
The hearing was told that the fencing had been subject to vandalism in the past and that the site had been breached on six occasions. Bolstering the fencing had
A health board eradicated a waiting list for prostate cancer surgery - by using robots. NHS Tayside currently has no patients waiting for a prostate cancer op, and recorded the highest number of procedures using a single robot in Scotland.
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