Record court fine after worker's death
Monday, 22 December, 2003
Energy Brix Australia Pty Ltd was fined a total of $135,000 in the Sale County Court in October over the death of a 48 year old man who was engulfed in molten ash while removing solidified ash inside a hopper at the Morwell power station, in Victoria's Latrobe Valley, in May 2001.
The fine is the highest imposed by the County Court under Victoria's Occupational Health and Safety Act.
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