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An engineering firm has been fined more than $500,000 after an employee was crushed to death by unmaintained machinery at a worksite in Perth ’s northeast. The welder, aged in his 40s, was killed when a 1350kg welding manipulator boom he was working under “fell suddenly” at Hofmann Engineering’s fabrication workshop in Bassendean. The disaster, in May 2019, resulted in “fatal crush injuries”. The worker was taken from the Alice St workshop to Royal Perth Hospital but could not be saved.
Apart from pre-start visual checks looking at buttons and ensuring the machine went up and down and there was no unusual noises, “there was no other scheduled maintenance or inspections carried out or recorded by a qualified fitter”. “The court agreed that the incident was caused by a lack of reasonably practicable safety measures,” WorkSafe WA said in a statement.
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