Civil 1 Pty Ltd has been convicted and fined $238,000 in the Industrial Court of NSW as a result of a prosecution by SafeWork NSW.
These proceedings arose from an incident that occurred on 5 December 2022 where a worker employed by Civil 1 Pty Ltd suffered an electric shock after a 16-metre-long steel reinforcement cage which he had been guiding into a hole buckled and fell onto two 11,000-volt overhead power lines at a North Wollongong construction site.
Civil 1 Pty Ltd pleaded guilty to an offence pursuant to section 32 of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 for failing to comply with its duty to workers under section 19(1) of the Act.
The full judgment against the company can be read on the NSW Caselaw website.
Civil 1 Pty Ltd has the right to appeal against its sentence.
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