Safety campaigners have expressed dismay at the HSE鈥檚 decision not to prosecute anyone in the wake of the Liverpool crane collapse that killed a worker last January.

Ucatt called the decision, announced last Friday, a 鈥渒ick in the teeth for workers鈥�.

Julia Brandreth of the Battersea Crane Disaster Action Group said: 鈥淚鈥檓 not convinced this won鈥檛 happen again and that more people won鈥檛 be killed.鈥� She said the group was calling for cranes designed in the same way to be taken out of circulation.

Mr Swirzynski, a carpenter, was killed on 15 January 2007, when a tower crane collapsed and crushed him on a site in the centre of Liverpool. The crane driver was also injured.

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