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Health & Safety Executive investigates how contractor used scaffolding, following fatal accident in Milton Keynes.
The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) is turning its attention to the possibility that overloading caused the Milton Keynes scaffolding collapse, which has now claimed the life of one worker - two more remain in a critical condition.
The workers were injured when 14 storeys of scaffolding collapsed last Tuesday during the construction of the £23m, 279-bedroom Jury's Inn hotel in the city centre. The project's developer/contractor is McAleer & Rushe from Northern Ireland.
On Friday, it was confirmed that one of the three workers injured in the accident, 49-year-old John Robinson - an employee of Hampshire-based cladding firm LSC - had died in hospital.
The site remained shut over Easter, and the HSE, which...