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 a breach of 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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