A NARANGBA metal fabricator has been fined $35,000 after a worker was injured at its steel manufacturing business in June 2007.
NB Hayward pleaded guilty in on 24 July 2008 to breaching section 28(1) of the Workplace Health and Safety Act 1995, having failed to ensure the safety of its worker was not affected by the way it carried out its business.
On the day of the incident, two workers had been using an overhead gantry crane to move steel around the workplace.
When a chain around a two tonne beam was released, it caught the edge of the beam, causing it to fall over. One of the workers had his legs pinned against another beam.
The victim suffered compound fractures to his legs, a punctured right calf and nerve damage to his right leg.
According to the prosecution by Workplace Health and Safety Queensland, the company had not provided written information, instruction or training to the workers in the use of the overhead gantry cranes, or the movement and placement of steel beams using the cranes.
The company was issued a prohibition notice, stopping workers from standing in the fall zone of structural steel when it is being moved using overhead gantry cranes.