Companies warned to ensure heavy loads are correctly secured

Haulage companies have been reminded 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, have been fined a total of £37,500 at Edinburgh Sheriff Court.

The charges related to an incident in which employee Nicholas McKellar died after a steel beam weighing almost 1000kg fell from a vehicle as it was being unloaded, on 10 Octob... (433 more words)

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