UNITE Scotland has called for tougher laws relating to wind farm working after a 74-year-old worker died in East Ayrshire after becoming stranded in the snow.
The union wants to see a stiffening of laws governing the construction and maintenance of wind farms sites.
A worker died after becoming stranded in heavy snow while working on a wind farm in New Cumnock. Unite said the man, who has not been named yet, and a younger colleague were left without heat or power.
Stevie Dillion of Unite Scotland said, “How long is it going to be before the Government and HSE take action to prevent these totally avoidable deaths? How many more workers will perish because nothing has been done to establish proper legal safeguards for the construction and maintenance of wind farms?”
