A Laverton North freight company has been convicted and fined $375,000 over the death of a worker who was crushed by a 630-kilogram computer server that fell off a forklift.
AirRoad, which had pleaded guilty to failing to provide a safe system of work, was sentenced in the County Court last month.
The court heard that a worker died when the server fell on him as it was being unloaded in January 2010. It crushed his chest and he died at the scene. The forklift was on sloping ground and the company had failed to enforce a two-metre buffer zone as oversized freight was being unloaded from a truck.
