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Foster's Fined $1.04M Over Worker's Death |
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Tuesday, 05 August 2008 |
MELBOURNE, Australia: Global brewing giant Foster's has been fined $1.04 million over a safety breach that led to the death of a worker.
Machine operator Cuu Huynh, 58, died from injuries suffered as he performed maintenance on a beer bottling machine at the company's Abbotsford brewery in Melbourne in 2006.
Huynh's head had become jammed between an automated door on a beer bottling machine and a railing at the brewery in a repeat of a similar incident in, which another worker was injured several years earlier, the court heard.
Victorian County Court Judge Jane Campton said no fine she imposed could compensate for the family's loss.
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