WA scrap yard fined $80,000 after death

A WEST Australian scrapyard has been fined $80,000 over an unsafe work environment where a worker was fatally crushed under a piece of metal.

J & P Group, trading as J & P Metals, pleaded guilty in the Bunbury Magistrates Court to failing to provide and maintain a safe work environment.

The scrapyard near Picton, in the state's South West, uses oxy-cutters to chop scrap metal into smaller pieces so they can be easily transported.

The yard employed some Chinese nationals with varying levels of understanding of English, and the deceased worker spoke little English.

In November 2011, the worker was given the job of oxy-cutting a large bucket above head height.

He was working without supervision when he was crushed by an 800kg piece that broke away from the main structure and fell on him.

When the worker began his job nine months earlier, he was given an induction but nothing specific to oxy-cutting.

He then received a few hours of formal training and worked under the supervision of another relatively inexperienced Chinese oxy-cutter for three months.

The man was shown how to assess the risk of falling pieces, safe cutting and where to position himself when cutting overhead.

WorkSafe WA commissioner Lex McCulloch described the incident as "a very disappointing failure" in providing and enforcing safe work procedures.

"Although some safety documents were available at this workplace, there were no written safe work procedures for oxy-cutting oversize items, no individual job safety analyses were carried out and risk assessments were left to the oxy-cutters themselves," he said.

Since the death, the employer had reassessed the risks at the yard and an additional supervisor had been been employed.

"It is crucial, especially in any workplace employing foreign workers, that training and procedures are communicated to workers, and supervision is provided to those workers in a language that is readily and clearly understood," Mr McCulloch said.

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