Court Summary - at a glance
Date of offence:
29 December 2016
Plea:
Guilty
Decision:
Convicted
Final decision date:
Fine imposed:
$330,000
Safety lessons learned:
- Ensure that the Weinig Planer was adequately guarded to New Zealand Standards;
- Ensure safe systems of work were provided for the Weinig Planer that included:
- Formalised pre-start checks to ensure machine guards were present and functional;
- Lockout/tagout procedures that incorporated jam-ups’
- A system to ensure that new or returning staff are competent to operate the machine and follow safe systems of work.
Defendant name:
Claymark Limited
Industry:
Manufacturing
Date of offence:
29 December 2016
Facts in brief:
Claymark Limited is a timber processing company. The victim, a machine operator at Claymark’s Kopu site, suffered partial amputation of his hand when it was drawn into an inadequately guarded planer machine.
Offence section:
Sections 48(1) and 2(c), and 36(1)(a) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Date(s) charged:
Court:
Thames - District Court
Plea:
Guilty
Final decision date:
Decision:
Convicted
Fine imposed:
$330,000
Maximum fine available:
$1.5 million
Reparation:
$42,000 in addition to $10,000 already paid
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