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Two construction firms have been fined a combined $468,000 in WA over separate job site safety blunders that led to a schoolboy’s death and a worker being crushed under a concrete staircase. Joshua Field suffered catastrophic injuries when he fell from an unfinished unit at a construction site on Gosnells Rd West, Maddington on May 9, 2022. The 12-year-old boy’s brother and cousins witnessed as he fell and was struck by a metal beam. They had accessed the site through an open gate.
“In this case security gates were present but they were frequently left open after-hours when the site was left unattended because PTG did not have a system in place to ensure the gate was closed and locked when the site was unattended,” North said. “WA’s workplace health and safety laws require that the person in control of a construction site must ensure, as far as is reasonably practicable, that the workplace is secured from unauthorised access.
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