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Glasgow Live
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Connor Gordon & Fahad Tariq

Drumchapel boy Shea Ryan fatally fell six metres down open manhole cover on building site

A schoolboy fell through a manhole cover to his death after a contractor failed to implement health and safety measures. Shea Ryan, 10, slipped on a ladder inside the hole close to a play park near his home in Glasgow’s Drumchapel on July 16 2020.

Shea was able to enter a construction site through an insecure fence before sitting beside the open cover situated 60 metres from the park.

He told other children that he "wanted to go down.”

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