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Building company fined $175,000 over death of worker
Building company Gran Designs WA Pty Ltd has been fined a total of $175,000 over the 2017 death of a contract worker in the South-West town of Yarloop.
The company pleaded guilty in the Bunbury Magistrates Court yesterday to five charges, the most serious of which was failing to provide and maintain a safe workplace and, by that failure, causing the death of the worker. On this charge the company was fined $150,000.
Other charges against Gran Designs involved workers not wearing safety helmets, not having a Safety Management Plan, not having a Safe Work Method Statement on site and workers not holding High Risk Work Licences. On these charges the company was handed a global fine of $25,000.
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Police make arrest – man armed with a knife steals car A 33-year-old man is due to appear before the Bunbury Magistrates Court today, 15 March 2021 after he was charged by Bunbury Detectives in relation to an armed robbery.
About 4.40pm on Sunday, 14 March 2021, a woman in her 40s was driving her silver Ford Eco-Sport SUV along Bussell Highway, Carey Park. As she drove through the roundabout it is alleged the man ran out in front of her vehicle, causing her to brake heavily and stop.
It is further alleged the man was armed with a knife and he threatened the woman before grabbing her and throwing her onto the road. She was treated in hospital for a leg injury.
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Police dish out more mask charges amid WA lockdown
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Two more men have been arrested and charged in separate incidents after allegedly failing to wear a mask during WA’s five-day lockdown.
A 51-year-old Beaconsfield man and a 46-year-old Bunbury man were both charged after they declined to wear a free face mask offered to them by officers.
Most people in WA have accepted wearing a mask – but there have still been several arrests.
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Police will allege the 51-year-old was in the Fremantle CBD when officers spotted him without a face mask on three separate occasions from January 31 to February 2.