Government of Western Australia | A concrete manufacturing company has been fined $580,000 and ordered to pay $6,180 in costs after a worker was seriously injured at its Neerabup batching plant.
Ransberg Pty Ltd (WA Premix) pleaded guilty to failing to provide and maintain a safe workplace after a waste-pit gate fell on a worker, causing multiple open fractures and an amputation.
Investigators found no mechanism to prevent the gate from falling when lifting chains were detached, despite knowledge of a safer “C channel” support method used at other plants.
