A Laverton North meat processor and a labour hire firm have been fined more than $100,000 after a worker lost two fingers in an inadequately guarded machine in 2010.
Diamond Valley Pork and Sanikleen each pleaded guilty to work safety charges at Werribee Magistrates Court last week.
A Sanikleen employee working at Diamond Valley Pork had three fingers crushed in the rollers of a machine he was cleaning and oiling.
The man’s index and middle fingers were surgically amputated and his right ring finger has lost mobility. Both companies had prior offences for workplace safety issues.
WorkSafe’s general manager of operations Lisa Sturzenegger said the courts took workplace safety issues seriously, particularly when there had been prior offences.
