Capalaba company fined $25,000 for workplace safety breach
Date issued: 2009-10-06
A Capalaba construction company has been fined $25,000 after a worker was injured at Chermside in April 2008.
Pro Form Qld Pty Ltd pleaded guilty in the Brisbane Industrial Magistrates Court on 19 June 2009 to breaching section 24 of the Workplace Health and Safety Act 1995, having failed to ensure workplace safety.
The Court heard the company was sub contracted for formwork supply, installation and removal at the construction site of an eight storey residential building.
A worker fell three metres onto the concrete floor below through a hole covered by a piece of unsecured plywood which the worker was attempting to move.
He sustained a cut to his hand and bruising to his tailbone.
The Workplace Health and Safety Queensland investigation revealed the company had not covered, secured and marked a penetration in accordance with the Workplace Health and Safety Regulation 1997 and the Workplace Health and Safety Formwork Code of Practice 2006.
Industrial Magistrate Mr Paul Kluck, in addition to the fine, ordered the company to pay investigation, professional and court costs totalling $1699.50. No conviction was recorded.
The prosecution was brought by Workplace Health and Safety Queensland, a part of the Department of Justice and Attorney-General.
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