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First day on the job death leads to $180k fine/reparation

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WorkSafe NZ media release, 11 May 2016 A Gisborne-based logging transport operator has been fined $80,000 and ordered to pay reparations of $100,000 in relation to the death of a contractor who was fatally run over during his first day on the job. James Walter Beau Thompson pleaded guilty to…