Sheffield-based Linbrooke Services was found guilty at Dumbarton Sheriff Court of three breaches of health and safety and working at height regulations following a 14-day trial. He was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident, which happened on June 5 2018. The piping pierced his side, causing internal injuries. He was trying to free cabling that had become stuck when he fell backward from a stepladder and was impaled on a section of piping being used as the handle on a cable drum. Matthew Mason, 20, was installing a PA system at Bearsden railway station, in East Dunbartonshire, when he fell to his death. A construction company has been fined £550,000 over the "foreseeable and avoidable death" of an electrician who was impaled on metal piping.
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