Disability Service Cops $1.8 Million Fine for Burns Death

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Disability Service Cops $1.8 Million Fine for Burns Death

A disability support provider has been fined $1.8 million after admitting serious shortfalls in staff training that led to a vulnerable Indigenous woman dying from burns after being given a bath. Kyah Lucas suffered burns to 35 to 40 per cent of her body when she was bathed at her home in Orange, in central-west NSW, by two workers from NDIS provider LiveBetter on Feb. 2, 2022. The 28-year-old died in a Sydney hospital five days later. The Feder…