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Machinery sales centre fined $442,000 for H&S breach…
The District Court has convicted and fined a machinery sales centre for a health and safety breach after it loaned a tractor to a farmer on trial.
While being driven on the farm the tractor’s brakes failed, causing the tractor to roll back down a hill. The employee was thrown off the tractor and run over by the tractor. The employee suffered serious injuries as a result.
The Court found that warning light wires had not been properly reconnected after servicing of the tractor and the brakes were not working properly.
The machinery centre was fined $239,000 and ordered to pay reparation of $103,000 to the victim.
Alan Knowsley
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