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AN AUSTRALIAN COMPANY has been fined $60,000 after an Irish worker was seriously injured in a workplace accident.
Annie Dunne from Kilkeary, Tipperary, was working on a farm in Shepparton East about 200km north of Melbourne when the incident happened late in 2015.
Part of her scalp as well one of her ears were torn off when her hair got caught in a rotating drive shaft which was attached to one of the conveyor belts.
WorkSafe, the region’s health and safety body, said the circumstances of the incident were appalling.
Spokeswoman Marnie Williams said: “This truly was a shocking incident that has changed this young woman’s life in a split second.
Appalling
“It’s staggering that workers were expected to clean machines which were still in operation.
“All workers at this business were exposed to serious risks to their health and safety because a safe system of work was not in place. There was no requirement to isolate the conveyors from energy sources during the cleaning process and no training provided to workers.”
Ms Williams said there was a blatant risk of serious injury from entanglement, crushing or entrapment with both conveyors.
“This labour hire business engaged workers for this packing shed and left them exposed to risk of serious injury and death
“They should have ensured the workers were provided with a safe working environment and appropriate training at the workplace and not just left it to chance.”
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Expect plenty more revelations.
ABP is a common name popping up a lot
Looking forward to the rest of the DNeigh results as they come in…
Just hearing some horses that died in Aintree were sold as beef shocking
I’m doing a sub-four -minute mile. Shergar DNA
Monaghan just up the road from me. Usually were Very good NEIGHbours until now.
I hope all these products with horse meat in them aren’t just being thrown away. There is nothing wrong with horse meat the only problem with the whole thing is that they didn’t tell us that the products contain horse meat. There are plenty of starving people that would gladly take horse meat burgers.
Stupid question…doesn’t horse cost more than cows?
Apparently not
I doubt it’s the 100% healthy ones that are ending up in the slaughterhouse.
We’re not eating racing stallions.
the price per kilo of beef paid to the farmer is 4.00- 4.50 per kilo carcass weight …….. I was talking to a farmer the other day and he told me that they just get paid for the carcass…they do not get paid for the organs or the hide (leather) ….
the price of horsemeat is .90 per kilo………..
The farmer was telling me that in Ireland that because of the new regulations being brought in with regard to horse ownership that certain people who own a lot of horses have been selling them to knackers (the correct term i.e. buyers of worn-out or unwanted horses ).
He maintained that you can buy anything from five to ten horses for the price of a cow and that in some cases people who can no longer afford to keep horses are giving them away !
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