Flaws in scaffold could have led to casualties

A POTENTIAL calamity on a building site was averted when a health and safety spotcheck found flaws in the erection of a scaffolding.

Judge Patrick J Moran noted from evidence at Cork Circuit Criminal Court yesterday that serious difficulties were found in the scaffold.

It was erected in an 8-metre deep excavation in August 2009 at 12 Oliver Plunkett Street, Cork, where a building was to be constructed.