Scaffolding company fined after collapse kills young tradie

Apprentice Christopher Cassaniti was crushed to death when 30 metres of scaffolding suddenly collapsed at his building site at Macquarie Park in Sydney in April 2019.

The scaffolding fell and they became trapped. Wehbe, though seriously injured, survived the ordeal, holding Cassaniti's hand until the end. An investigation found the scaffold was capable of holding 675 kilograms per level however at the time of the collapse, it was grossly overloaded with 17,905 kilograms of building materials.Scotting said the case is about Synergy Scaffolding Services' "culpability" for the incident but there were multiple contributing factors to the collapse, including workers on the site removing ties to the building to do their own work without authorisation.

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Fined you say? Aww, the money.....fuck not the money. We'll never see the money again........................................................................... Is this a joke?

That’s fucken bullshit. Someone needs to be accountable for this.

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Scaffolding company fined $2m for 'catastrophic' collapse that killed teen apprenticeA series of unsafe practices at the Sydney building site made the fatal collapse 'almost certain', a court hears. So it was a known and deliberate offence that ended in death. Why isn’t someone charged with man slaughter? Still nothing about the man killed on Work for the Dole. Not catastrophic enough?
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