Five years on from an incident that left a worker with serious injuries, a Tasmanian construction company has been fined $115,000.
The Macquarie Builders employee fell onto a mobile scaffold star picket while working on a new public toilet and change room at Kingston Beach, south of Hobart, in April 2019.
The scaffold, which was positioned on a concrete slab, slipped, causing the worker to fall into an area with star pickets intended for concrete boxing support.
Macquarie Builders was last month 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.
As reported by the ABC, in the Hobart Magistrates Court on Friday, Deputy Chief Magistrate Michael Daly read a victim impact statement that said the worker’s dreams had been shattered and his relationships strained due to the incident.
The statement also said the incident had left him with ‘serious physical and psychological scars’.
Magistrate Daly acknowledged the company’s safety efforts but noted the failure in this particular case.
