an 18-year-old worker whose entire scalp was ripped off in an unguarded piece of machinery.
The 18-year-old was working as a shed hand — her first job — when, “in an instant, her young and hopeful life flipped into shock, trauma, ongoing pain and disfigurement,” tribunal deputy president Katheine Eaton said in her findings.
Her colleagues immediately rushed to help her and called triple-0. Paramedics had to retrieve her scalp from the machine.Fish causes Aussie sailor’s yacht to partially capsize The factory’s managers also rushed to the site, phoned the 18-year-old’s family, apologised and offered them $60,000 as reparation and to help cover some of the expenses of travelling to Adelaide for medical treatment.
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