Company director given home detention after worker buried in trench collapse
WorkSafe NZ media release, 22 March 2016 The director of Waikato company Steelcon Construction Limited, Rodney Bishop, has been sentenced to four months home detention over the death of a worker who died after he was buried when a trench he was working in collapsed. SteelCon Construction was also fined…
Recycling collection firm to pay over $151K after employee fatally crushed in bin lift incident
WorkSafe NZ media release, 23 March 2016 The family of a Wellington driver fatally crushed while operating a glass collection truck will receive $85,000 in court-ordered reparations from Enviro Waste Services Limited (ESL). The household refuse and recycling collection firm was sentenced in the Wellington District Court today after pleading…