AAP General News (Australia)
12-05-2011
QLD:Australia Post fined for forklift accident
Australia Post has been fined $160,000 over a workplace incident which led to a mail
centre worker losing a leg when he was run over by a forklift.
LEONARD BOBART was three days shy of his 73rd birthday when he was hit by the forklift
while working at the Toowoomba Mail Centre on July 7, 2008.
Mr BOBART, who was casually employed as a contractor in the loading dock, had to have
his right leg amputated at the knee, and he spent more than a month in hospital.
The Federal Court heard Australia Post admitted it had breached the Occupational Health
and Safety Act by failing to properly control pedestrian and vehicle traffic in the congested
loading dock.
Justice JOHN LOGAN said he accepted submissions that the company had gone to great
lengths to draft safety regulations, but the lack of implementation of these regulations
at Toowoomba represented a serious "failure in the corporation's chain of command".
AAP RTV cf/gd/ar
KEYWORD: LEGAL: BOBART (BRISBANE)
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