THE heartbroken mother of a Bradford father-of-three last night demanded answers to why he was fatally injured while working on a demolition site.
Andy Hagan, 35, suffered multiple crush injuries when a lintel fell on him at the former Deighton Centre in Huddersfield.
He died at Leeds General Infirmary on Tuesday with his family at his bedside after they gave permission for doctors to turn off a life support machine.
Mr Hagan, of Little Horton Lane, Little Horton, was father to Georgia, 17, Megan, 15 and Alfie, five.
He was employed as a demolition worker at Gill Demolitions Ltd, based at Progress Works, Hall Lane, for the last nine months after previously being unemployed.
He was one of a number of contractors who were carrying out demolition work at the former school turned training centre in Deighton Road when he was injured on the afternoon of April 28.
A probe into his death is now being jointly carried out by the police and the Health and Safety Executive.
Mr Hagan's devastated mother, Norma O'Brien, 57, of Basil Street, Little Horton, said her family wanted to know the full circumstances surrounding his death.
She said: "I'm not blaming anybody. I just want to know what's happened.
"If it was an accident, it was an accident. I just want to know why.
"I want to know what happened to Andy before we lay him to rest.
"Gills did phone straight after it happened but I have not heard from them since.
"I'm devastated. I have lost my little boy. I feel cheated that I have lost him. His little boy is only five-years-old. His kids have lost their dad.
"Nobody will ever be able to fill his place.
"I could not bear to go to the hospital when they turned off Andy's life support machine, but all of the rest of the family were around him.
"He was just a nice lad. He would do anything for anybody."
Detective Inspector Stef Wiseman, of Kirklees District CID, confirmed police were involved in the investigation into Mr Hagan's death.
She said: "Police received a report in relation to the death of a man following an incident at a demolition site in Deighton Road, Huddersfield, on April 28.
"The man, who was working on-site, suffered serious injuries and was taken to Leeds General Infirmary where he passed away on May 5.
"Officers are making inquiries into the circumstances surrounding the man's death alongside the HSE."
No-one at Gill Demolitions Ltd was available to speak to the T&A yesterday.
The Deighton Centre, a training base for Kirklees Council, closed last year. It was also the former site of Deighton High School and housed offices and a nursery.
Kirklees Council, which owns the site, said it will fully support an investigation into Mr Hagan's death.
A spokesman at Kirklees Coroners Office yesterday said no inquest date for Mr Hagan had yet been set.
Mrs O'Brien said her son was a former pupil of the then Buttershaw High School, now renamed Buttershaw Business and Enterprise College, and was a keen football fan.
"He was Manchester United mad and also followed Bradford City. He went to watch City play at Sheffield a few weeks ago," she said.
"He was a good dad. We are a big family and we have always stuck together. He lived round the corner from me."
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