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Lax approach to forestry operation leaves worker injured

25/9/2018

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Rotorua based logging operator Cropp Logging was sentenced in the Tauranga District Court today after an incident where a worker was struck by a tumbling log.
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The worker was on his first day on a forestry site in Rangiuru working as head breaker-out when the incident occurred in March 2017. The site was using a cabling system to move logs uphill, when a hooked-on log became dislodged and began rolling down a gully. The log struck the worker resulting in significant injuries and hospitalisation.

The operation of a digger above the worker was found to have increased the risk of the log becoming dislodged and tumbling downhill.
WorkSafe’s investigation into the matter found that Cropp Logging failed to complete an adequate safe behavioural observation of the worker, did not fully induct the worker into his role as head breaker-out and did not ensure that no machinery was operating above the area where the worker was breaking-out.

WorkSafe’s Deputy General Manager for Investigations and Specialist Services Simon Humphries said, “Forestry is an inherently dangerous industry, from the heavy machinery being worked with, the terrain that work is conducted on and the many people involved in the process.

“A lax approach to managing risk on forestry sites is not acceptable, particularly when considering the rates of fatalities and harm in the industry. Systems and procedures have their purpose and place, and should be implemented to keep everyone safe from harm in the workplace.”

Notes:
  • A fine of $100,000 was imposed. The fine was reduced from $750,000 for financial reasons and when considering the size of the family owned and operated company.
  • Reparation of $80,000 was ordered.
  • Cropp Logging Limited was sentenced under sections 36(1)(a), 48(1) and (2)(c) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015.
    • Being a PCBU, failed to comply with a duty to ensure the health and safety of workers, so far as reasonably practicable, that exposes individual to a risk of death or serious injury or serious illness.
  • The maximum penalty is a fine not exceeding $1,500,000.

Source: 
https://worksafe.govt.nz/about-us/news-and-media/lax-approach-to-forestry-operation-leaves-worker-injured/
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