A LIVERPOOL company has been fined $100,000 and ordered to pay
WorkCover’s legal costs after a 58-year-old Minto man was crushed
to death in January, 2008.
The Minto man died when a loading ramp collapsed after a hydraulic
lifter malfunctioned at a demolition site in Fairfield.
The Minto man, an excavator, worked for P&D Transport NSW Pty Ltd,
a trucking business transporting oversized plant and equipment to and
from construction sites.
The NSW Industrial Court found the death was caused by the failure of a
pivot pin that supported the hydraulic cylinder causing the loading ramp to
collapse.
The sole director of the transport company, Paul Houghton, was separately
charged and fined $5000 by the court and ordered to pay a proportion of
WorkCover’s legal costs.
The court found the company had no system for periodic inspection of the
trailer.
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