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The sole director of a building firm has been jailed for 10 months after an employee was crushed to death by an excavator bucket.
Robert Harvey, director of Front Row Builders Ltd, was operating the excavator when it killed employee Nicholas Hall.
Hall was pinned against the wall of an excavation pit for a vehicle wash bay that was under construction for Peter Lawless Road Planing Limited at Whistleberry Road, Blantyre.
Hamilton Sheriff Court heard that on 7 May 2016 work was being carried out by Front Row Builders Ltd employees to build a wall within an excavation. Harvey operated an excavator to lower cement and blocks down into the hole for three other men who were working in the hole to use. Robert Harvey tipped the bucket to empty the mortar contents and shouted to Hall to “scrape the rest out with a shovel”. Hall was pinned against the wall by the excavator bucket and died of blunt force injuries to his chest and abdomen.
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