sheriff has ruled. Bryan Thomson, 25, was power washing a mower at Northhouse Farm near Hawick, Roxburghshire, when it collapsed onto him.
Emergency services raced to the scene but he was pronounced dead by medics in October 2019. A fatal accident inquiry at Jedburgh Sheriff Court heard Thomson had raised the Pottinger Novacast mower to clean it for winter but a link snapped causing it to fall on to him.Sheriff Peter Paterson ruled his death could have been avoided had the mower been held by axle supports or wooden blocks.He added that Thomson should not have been under the mower when he was cleaning it.In a written judgment, Sheriff Paterson said: "When the tractor and mower were examined after the accident it was found that the nearside.
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