Inquest is adjourned while Health and Safety Executive probe accident
A BUILDER has died a fortnight after suffering serious injuries when he fell from scaffolding on a Doncaster housing development.
Health and Safety Executive inspectors are carrying out an investigation into the fall to compile a report for the coroner.
Paul Grierson plunged to the ground while climbing a ladder at the Harden Mews construction site off Whiphill Lane, Armthorpe. The director of a West Yorkshire property firm should have been celebrating his 61st birthday today.
The tragedy happened on Monday, June 4, and Mr Grierson, of Old Lane, Bramhope, Leeds, was taken to Doncaster Royal Infirmary.
His daughter, Annette Grierson, who lives in Bradford, told a Doncaster inquest: “We were told he had fallen off some scaffolding and been taken to hospital with serious injuries.”
Doctors told his wife, Susan, and family his condition was deteriorating and he died last Monday.
A post mortem examination has given a preliminary cause of death of multi-organ failure caused by septicaemia resulting from his injuries.
Ms Grierson said her father enjoyed good health before the accident although he had undergone a heart bypass operation 10 years ago.
She said he was the director of his own property development company but remained “hands on” because he was a joiner by trade.
He had been working on the new estate at Armthorpe. Doncaster Deputy Coroner Fred Curtis adjourned the inquest to await a full medical report and statements about the probe into the tragedy.
A spokesman for the Health and Safety Executive said afterwards: “I can confirm we are investigating this fatality and a full report will be completed for the inquest.”
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