Construction company fined $115k after worker fell from scaffold onto star picket

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In short: Tasmanian construction company Macquarie Builders has been fined $115,000 after being found guilty of safety breaches that left a worker with serious injuries.The man had been working on the...

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The worker fell from a mobile scaffold onto a star picket.(Supplied: Facebook/JAWSArchitects)The incident triggered an investigation by WorkSafe Tasmania — but it said the probe was \"hampered\" because the site was not \"preserved\" by Macquarie Builders.In March, Macquarie Builders was found guilty of failing to ensure the health and safety of the worker from the risk of serious injury or death and with a failure to preserve the incident site.On Friday, Deputy Chief Magistrate Michael Daly read a victim impact statement from the worker which said that his \"dreams had been shattered and relationships were strained\".It also said the incident had left him with \"serious physical and psychological scars.\"Mr Daly told the court \"Macquarie Builders was particularly proactive about safety but fell short on this particular occasion\" and accepted \"there was no sinister motivation behind the company's failure to preserve the site\".The company was fined $115,000.LoadingLoading...Posted 15m ago15 minutes agoFri 26 Apr 2024 at 3:00amShareCopy linkFacebookX (formerly Twitter)Related StoriesConstruction company facing $1.55m fine over 'horrific' injuries to worker who fell on to star picketMore on:Accidents and Emergency IncidentsBurnieConstruction and Real Estate IndustryCourts and TrialsHobartKingston BeachLauncestonOccupational Health and SafetyWorkWorkplace Accidents and Incidents","kind":null,"is_publish_news":null,"is_publish_highlight":null,"is_publish_live":null,"is_publish_wemedia":null,"editions":null,"symbols":[],"gpt_button":1},"commentList":[],"isCommentEnd":true,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":0,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false},"APP":{"userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)","isDev":false,"isTTM":true,"deviceId":"web-server-community-laohu8-v3","version":"4.22.4","shortVersion":"4.22.4","platform":"web","vendor":"web","appName":"ttm","isIOS":false,"isAndroid":false,"isTiger":false,"isTHS":false,"isWeiXin":false,"isWeiXinMini":false,"isWeiBo":false,"isQQ":false,"isBaiduSwan":false,"isBaiduBox":false,"isDingTalk":false,"isToutiao":false,"isOnePlus":false,"isHuaWei":false,"isXiaomi":false,"isXiaomiWebView":false,"isOppo":false,"isVivo":false,"isSamsung":false,"isMobile":false},"href":"/m/news/2430292538"}