Australia: Cement Australia and Cement Australia (Kandos) (CA Kandos) have been fined a total of US$172,843 for the death of Colin David Fuller at the Kandos cement plant in 2009. Fuller was fatally injured when he was crushed between two hydraulic rams while working at the factory on 13 September 2009, according to the Mudgee Guardian.
The North South Wales (NSW) Industrial Relations Commission found that CA Kandos and Cement Australia had breached the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2000, by failing to install fixed guarding along the entire length of a feeder and conveyor system as required by Australian safety standards and failing to provide adequate supervision and instruction to Fuller. In the judgement Commissioner J Backman found that the systems in place at the time of Fuller's death were comprehensive but defective in a number of respects.
