A company director is to face trial accused of safety failings that led to a worker being flung more than 26 feet to his death when the cherry picker he was operating was struck by a bus on a Perthshire street.
Kevin Bowie, 37, is a director of Precision Decorating Services (Scotland) Ltd., registered office in Denny, Stirlingshire.
He is said to have failed to ensure that work being carried out at height by the victim, Michael McArthur, on September 27th 2018 in Balkerach Street, Doune, Perthshire, was properly planned, appropriately supervised, and carried out in a manner which was, as far as reasonably practicable, safe.
It is alleged that in particular Bowie failed to ensure that measures were in place to effectively segregate the cherry picker, a NIFTY HR12 Mobile Work Platform, from traffic, as a consequence of which the plant was struck by the bus and Mr McArthur, 26, was ejected from the basket of the machine and fell eight metres (26 ft, 3 ins) to the ground, sustaining severe injuries from which he died.
At Falkirk Sheriff Court, solicitor Dick Sandeman, representing Bowie, of Cumbernauld, who was not personally present, said his client denied the offence.
Sheriff Derek Livingston continued the case for summary trial set to take place over four days, starting on November 18th (2021).
