Prosecution summaries
Defendant:
Presto Construction Pty Ltd
Trading Name:
Presto Scaffolding
Description of Breach(es)
Section: 19(1)(d)
Breach(es):
Employer failed to provide such adequate personal protective clothing and equipment as was practicable to protect employees against hazards.
Background Details:
On 13 July 1995 the (injured) employee, and three other workers, were stripping a suspended birdcage scaffold from a lantern roof of a building under construction, approximately 5 metres above the ground floor level when he lost his balance and fell to the concrete slab below. There was no fall arrest equipment provided.
The employees' injuries were a shattered right knee cap, 3 breaks to his right arm, fractures to his left and right cheek bones, bruising of the brain and impaired vision (80% loss) in the left eye.
Charge Details:
Convicted on Friday, March 21, 1997 at Perth Court of Petty Sessions.
Fine(s): $5000
Costs: $1400
Charge Number: 2242/96