Australia, April 21 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on March 20:
1. Bhullar Steel Australia Pty Ltd (the offender) appears for sentence after pleading guilty to an offence pursuant to s 32 of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (the Act) in that it failed to comply with the health and safety duty it owed pursuant to s 19(1) of the Act and thereby exposed Narendra Lalam to a risk of death or serious injury.
2. The maximum penalty for the s 32 offence is a fine of 17,315 penalty units ($1,782,579).
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3. The offender was conducting the steel processing and fabrication business from its principal place of business at 5 Junction Street, Auburn in New South Wales (the site)...