‘Clearly preventable’: Company, director sentenced over timber yard death

‘Clearly preventable’: Company, director sentenced over timber yard death

A Timaru timber company and its director have been ordered to pay more than $450,000 in fines and reparations over the death of a 23-year-old worker. Point...

Timaru lumberyard fined $450K over death of young worker - Daily Telegraph NZ

Stock photo. A Timaru lumberyard and its director have been fined a total of $450,000 after 23-year-old Ethyn McTier was crushed to death in a preventable workplace accident in 2022. Point Lumber and its sole director, Sean David Sloper, were found to have failed in their duty of care, with no guarding on the conveyor belt where McTier was killed and a history of ignored safety warnings, including a 2017 consultant’s recommendation. The sentenci…

Construction Firm Supervisor Sentenced for Covering up Worker’s Death - Long Island Life & Politics

A Blue Point man has been sentenced to a year in prison for covering up the death of one of his employees. The sentencing was announced by Acting Assistant Attorney General Adam Gustafson of the [...] The post Construction Firm Supervisor Sentenced for Covering up Worker’s Death appeared first on Long Island Life & Politics.