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Court Summary - at a glance

Date of offence:
28 April 2016
 
Plea:
Guilty
 
Decision:
Convicted
 
Final decision date:
 
Fine imposed:
$0

Safety lessons learned:
  1. Ensure no children, or any other persons, rides or jumps on or off a water truck while it is in use.

Defendant name:
Philip Benjamin Burrows
 
Industry:
Arts and recreation
 
Date of offence:
28 April 2016
 
Facts in brief:
The defendant trains horses at a property containing stables and training tracks.

On the day of the incident, the defendant was driving a truck fitted with a water tanker to wet down and grade the outside track. The defendant allowed his son and a friend (the victim, aged 10 years old at the time of the incident) to ride on the truck while he carried out the work. The boys were jumping on and off the truck and were riding either on the rails on the side of the truck or on the platform at the back.

The victim was run over by the right rear wheels of the truck resulting in multi-trauma injuries
 
Offence section:
Sections 36(2) and 48(1) and (2)(b) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
 
Date(s) charged:

Court:
Christchurch - District Court
 
Plea:
Guilty
 
Final decision date:
 
Decision:
Convicted
 
Fine imposed:
$0
 
Maximum fine available:
$300,000
 
Reparation:
$25,726