The death of a construction worker at Glasgow's St Enoch Centre is to be probed in an inquiry.

Derek McLean was crushed after attempting to manoeuvre a 3.5-tonne BROKK machine up a set of stairs in the shopping centre on August 22, 2019.

The 43-year-old was later found trapped between the machine and a concrete wall near the stairwell. 

The exact circumstances of the accident were deemed "unknown" but the dad-of-three was found to have the remote control used to operate the machine around his waistband.

Mr McLean's employer Core Cut Limited pleaded guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court in November 2022 to failing to make a suitable and sufficient assessment of the risks to his health and safety. 

The firm was fined £10,000. 

Sheriff John McCormick said: "It is accepted that death did not occur as a consequence of the breach.

"Mr McLean was behind the machine on an incline where he should have been in front of it.

"It is conceded that the machine had successfully negotiated the same stairwell previously and that after the incident, another engineer experienced no difficulty in taking the machine up to the landing above then back down.

"Further mitigating factors include that the lack of an assessment was not profit-motivated.

"There had been an assessment but it was not sufficiently detailed."

A preliminary hearing of the fatal accident inquiry (FAI) is set to be held at Glasgow Sheriff Court on August 15.

The family of Mr McLean released a statement through Digby Brown Solicitors, which said: “We welcome the FAI but we are still devastated about the reasons for having it.

“The loss of Derek is something we will never get over – no person should go to work and not come home.

“All we can do now is hope the FAI improves standards everywhere and protects workers and families from avoidable tragedies.”