A Perth company fined $975,000 over a workplace death will pay nothing while its two directors are due to get a $158,000 distribution from the company’s liquidators.
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Perverse outcome from Welshpool workplace death
A Perth company fined $975,000 over a workplace death will pay nothing while its two directors are due to get a $158,000 distribution from the company’s liquidators.
That is the surprising but entirely legal financial outcome from the tragic death of a 16-year-old worker at a factory in Welshpool three years ago.
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