A SHERIFF has ruled there were "reasonable precautions" that a worker who fell to his death from scaffolding should have taken that could have prevented his death.
Mark Newlands, 58, from Johnstone in Renfrewshire, plummeted from scaffolding while working on a house in Glasgow's south side on July 22, 2011.
He fell after half a pallet of tiles were lifted on to the top platform of the scaffolding he was on, that had no edge protection.
Sheriff Lindsay Wood said, "the construction of the top platform was such that it was not appropriate for loading as it did not have the necessary safety protection."
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