Company fined almost $60,000 for safety accidents
A tuna processing company was fined almost $60,000 by the Industrial Court in early August 2011 after two employees were injured using the same machine within a month. The fine comes after the company plead guilty to breaches of the Occupational Health and Welfare Act 1986 for failing to ensure the safety of its workers. In the first of the incidents, a male employee suffered deep lacerations to his finger. At the time he was trying to clear a blockage in the caser machine, which is used to seal cardboard boxes.
A few weeks later the second accident took place when a female employee suffered severe injuries to her hand after it was trapped by moving parts in the same unguarded opening of the machine. As a result she sustained serious damage to her bone, nerve and tendon, leaving her right hand permanently impaired. The investigation conducted by SafeWork SA revealed that there were a number of crucial safety deficiencies such as the lack of a written safe operating procedure, explaining how to manage such a hazard.
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