Mining services company MLG Oz Limited has been fined $750,000—and ordered to pay $6,702.70 in costs—at Perth Magistrates Court over an April 2022 incident at Evolution Mining (Mungari) Pty Ltd’s Mungari gold mine 20km west of Kalgoorlie in which a heavy diesel mechanic suffered a serious crush injury and a left humerus fracture.
MLG Oz pleaded guilty to contravening sections 19(1) and 31(1) of the Work Health and Safety Act 2020. The company failed to ensure, so far as was reasonably practicable, the health and safety of a worker, a failure that caused serious harm to an individual.
Read the media release and the prosecution summary on the WorkSafe website for more information about the conviction.
