Furious workers are threatening to sue a major housebuilder with close links to the SNP over claims they were exposed to deadly asbestos. Springfield Properties – run by multi-millionaire Sandy Adam – was forced to pay a £10,000 fine after breaking safety laws at a building site in Milton of Campsie, Stirlingshire.
Government-run environment regulator SEPA found failures in the way the firm managed “controlled waste” being transported between a number of the firm’s developments. Documents seen by the Sunday Mail show a subcontractor was threatened with legal action if he made public allegations that asbestos was transported and buried at other sites where housing estates now stand.
Labourer Martin McGowan, 32, believes he is among hundreds of workers who could have been exposed to potentially deadly dust in 2013 and has written to Springfield to tell them he and others are taking legal advice. Martin, a father of two, said: “During my time working on these sites I was coming home to a newborn son potentially covered in asbestos.
