AFFCO worker impaled on meat hook awarded $25K
WorkSafe NZ media release, 20 April 2016 AFFCO New Zealand Limited has been fined $30,000 and ordered to pay reparation of $25,000 after a worker was impaled on a meat hook. The hook went in below his left ear and came out below his left eye, puncturing two major muscles…
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…
Te Awamutu club ordered to pay over $84K after patron injured in fall from height
WorkSafe NZ media release, 29 February 2016 The importance of taking adequate steps to manage a hazard, specifically a fall from height, was highlighted last Thursday in a District Court sentencing of a Te Awamutu club. Waipa Workingmen’s Club Incorporated was sentenced at the Te Awamutu District Court after pleading…
Fruit and veg processor to pay over $250,000 for finger amputations
WorkSafe NZ media release, 7 March 2106 In a reserved decision released today, Prepared Produce Limited was fined $196,406.25 for six offences and ordered to pay $57,000 in reparation to three victims. The fruit and vegetable processor pleaded guilty to three charges under the Health and Safety in Employment Act…