A tank manufacturer has been fined $65,000 after a worker’s thumb was amputated in an incident at its Swan Hill factory.
Polymaster Pty Ltd was sentenced in the Swan Hill Magistrates’ Court last Wednesday after pleading guilty to a single charge of failing to provide or maintain a system of work that was safe and without risks to health.
The company was also ordered to pay $16,000 in costs.
In March 2021, the worker was using an industrial wide belt sander when a flat metal bar she was holding to the sander while wearing leather rigging gloves, was dragged downward, trapping her left…
