A fruit juice company whose employee was killed after being dragged into machinery has been fined $NZ367,500 and ordered to pay $NZ141,000to the employee's widower.
The risks of the type of machinery were known to the industry and there was a failure to have an appropriate person carry out a hazard assessment of the machine."This is simply unacceptable for an employer of 80 staff." "There was a hands-off approach" and workers were left to come up with their own approaches, Backhouse said.
She said the fact employees were not using the machinery correctly was not known to the supervisor or the company's sole director, Stephen Brownlie. They believed staff knew that the machine should be stopped during the cleaning process. She noted that remedial measures had taken place since the accident and the machine was now considered safe to operate.
She made an order for emotional harm reparation of $NZ90,000 to be paid to the widower, as well as a further $NZ51,000 for economic losses incurred to him.
Oh how sad.
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