Company charged for customer death
A South Gippsland mechanic repairs company has been committed to stand trial in the County Court on workplace health and safety charges, after a customer was crushed on their premises.
A man died at the business of We Fix M (trading as Inverloch Motor Body Works) in Bear St, Inverloch, on 17 January last year, when a hoist holding a tandem trailer collapsed.
The trailer fell on the man — a customer — who had taken the trailer in for repairs the day before.
Although no one saw the accident, people at the scene said they saw the man with his hands near the rear axle of the trailer just before it fell.
A case conference is scheduled for 26 May at the Latrobe Valley County Court, Morwell.
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