A SCOT has died after being hit by a giant crane hook while working in Australia.
David Connelly, 40, was taken to hospital following the industrial accident in Tomago, New South Wales.
He was in a medically induced coma but his family agreed to switch off his life support machine last Friday after doctors revealed there was no hope of recovery.
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