A Fatal Accident Inquiry will be held into the death of a construction worker at Glasgow's St Enoch Centre.
The move comes just months after Derek McLean's employers were fined £15,000 after pleading guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court to breaking health and safety rules.
The 43-year-old was having difficulty gaining grip while attempting to manoeuvre a 3.5-tonne machine up a set of stairs at the city centre mall when he became trapped in August 2019.
The exact circumstances are not known, but the Core Cut worker was found to have the remote control used to operate the machine in his waistband.
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Core Cut pled admitted failing to make a suitable and sufficient assessment of the risks to the health and safety of Mr McLean on the day of his death.
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."
The preliminary hearing of the inquiry is scheduled to be held at Glasgow Sheriff Court on August 15 and will determine what, if any, reasonable steps could have been taken to prevent the tragedy.
