WORKSAFE Victoria says Jalor Tools has pled guilty to two workplace safety charges relating to a router tool in an incident which led to the death of a worker.
According to WorkSafe, on 21 December 2006 a female worker was using an industrial router to make the design on the front of a door when the router tool broke into three pieces, one of which struck her in the chest, killing her.
WorkSafe says its investigation of the incident found the router tool was supposed to be operated between 6,000 and 8,000 revolutions per minute, whereas in fact at the time of the accident it was actually operating around 15,000 rpm.
The court is said to have found Jalor Tools unaware of the Australian Standard AS1473.2-2001, which covers rotating tools of this type. In manufacturing the router tool it had failed to mark it with a maximum operating speed, nor did it provide written information about the safe operating speed.
Jalor Tools was fined $80,000 after it failed to provide safety information about its products to its customers.
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