The worker was crushed between the wheel arch and chassis of the bus during ad hoc maintenance.
The ACT Industrial Court has ordered Transport Canberra and City Services to pay more than $400,000 after a worker was crushed in a bus maintenance accident.Transport Canberra and City Services will have to pay more than $400,000 after a bus maintenance worker was crushed in a workplace accident in which he suffered broken ribs and collapsed lungs.
The worker was crushed in November 2021 while trying to grease the grease nipples of the kingpins of the steering mechanism of a public passenger bus at a TCCS maintenance site in Belconnen. He suffered serious injuries including multiple fractured ribs and two partially collapsed lungs, which he has said have caused "ongoing trauma".
The matter marks the first time the ACT has been prosecuted under the current legislation, which came into effect in 2011.
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