Court Summary - at a glance
Date of offence:
16 March 2017
Plea:
Guilty
Decision:
Guilty
Final decision date:
Fine imposed:
$264,000
Safety lessons learned:
- Ensure that there were adequate guarding arrangements on the out-feed of the Optimiser;
- Ensure that emergency stop devices on the out-feed of the Optimiser were fully operative, prominent and immediately accessible to each user of the machine;
- Develop, document, implement, communicate, and monitor the effectiveness of a safe system of work for the operation of the Optimiser. This would include:
- Developing and implementing safe operating procedures for all operations on the Optimiser including the hazards in the outfeed area; and
- Ensuring that all workers working on the Optimiser were trained and supervised according to the safe operating procedures.
Defendant name:
Claymark Limited
Industry:
Manufacturing
Date of offence:
16 March 2017
Facts in brief:
Claymark Limited is a timber processing company. The victim, a machine operator at Claymark’s Rotorua site, suffered amputation of the top of three fingers when his hand became entangled in the chain of an inadequately guarded optimiser machine.
Offence section:
Sections 48(1) and 2(c), and 36(1)(a) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Date(s) charged:
Court:
Rotorua - District Court
Plea:
Guilty
Final decision date:
Decision:
Guilty
Fine imposed:
$264,000
Maximum fine available:
$1.5 million
Reparation:
$4,000 in addition to $24,000 already paid
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