Australia's Covino Farms fined over $100k for workplace violations
Covino Farms pleaded guilty in the Latrobe Valley Magistrates court yesterday to breaches of the Occupational Health and Safety Act and was fined $85,000 for two incidents and ordered to pay costs of $22,933.
The offences related to two separate incidents at the company’s Longford farm and vegetable processing shed; one where a worker was run over by a tractor attachment and another where an employee fell into an uncovered drainage pit.
Another charge for allegedly failing to provide its workers with “information, instruction and training” to enable them to “perform their work in a way that was safe and without risks to health” was withdrawn.
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