An engineering firm has been fined $250,000 (US$163,000) after a worker was killed while dismantling a former Victorian cheese factory.
Glen Parsons died when he was crushed by a 770kg condenser at the old Murray Goulburn Cheese factory at Leitchville, in northern Victoria, in December 2017.
The equipment was being loaded into a shipping container for transport after the factory was bought by a New Zealand company in 2017.
By late November there were only a handful of people left from A1 Engineering working at the site, and Parsons was the most senior employee.
Site supervisor Andrew Buchanan had to return to New Zealand for family reasons as the project wrapped up but hoped to be back by Dec. 5….