A building company was fined $60,000 after a 27-year-old worker was left paraplegic after falling from a two-storey house in Keysborough. Johns Lyng Insurance Building Solutions Pty Ltd pleaded guilty in Dandenong Magistrates Court last week to a workplace safety charge under the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004.
The worker had fallen four metres into a stairwell void while installing roof trusses in 2010. He broke three vertebrae and suffered a punctured lung, fractured wrist and head wound. There was no fall protection above the void.
WorkSafe’s health and safety general manager Lisa Sturzenegger said fall protection – ’”the most fundamental measures of construction industry safety” – must still be a focus of WorkSafe’s activities.
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