Court Summary - at a glance

Date of offence:
24 February 2017
 
Plea:
Guilty
 
Decision:
Convicted
 
Final decision date:
 
Fine imposed:
Starting point of $400,000 reduced to $212,000 for both TSSL and Herberts

Safety lessons learned:

Being a PCBU, failed to ensure so far as was reasonably practicable, the health and safety of a worker who worked for the PCBU, namely [the deceased] while he was at work in the business or undertaking, namely driving a truck and loading and unloading palm kernel expeller at ADM New Zealand Limited's transitional facility, and that failure exposed [the deceased] to a risk of serious injury arising from working in close proximity to other trucks and mobile plant.