A SOUTH Australian mining company has been fined $65,000 following the death of a worker at the Port Pirie smelter in 2004.
Zinifex was found guilty in the SA Industrial Relations Court for breaching workplace safety laws which resulted in the death of Greg Sleep on 08 December 2008.
Forty-five year old Mr Sleep was struck and fatally injured by a front-end loader when he was working in a treatment shed in October 2004.
The court found the company failed to maintain a safe working environment through “a number of failings in its systems of work”.
According to WorkSafe SA, the fine is one of the highest ever delivered for a workplace death in the state.
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