{"id":307626,"date":"2021-10-20T11:12:02","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T01:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=307626"},"modified":"2021-10-20T11:12:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T01:12:20","slug":"company-fined-50000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2021\/10\/20\/company-fined-50000\/","title":{"rendered":"Company Fined $50,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>October 20, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Gold Coast company has been fined $50,000 after a worker suffered critical injuries in a workplace incident at Kumbia in December 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Soko Construction and Roofing Pty Ltd had been contracted to replace the roofs on two sheds on the property.<\/p>\n<p>Southport Magistrates Court was told one of the workers accidentally stepped on a polycarbonate skylight sheet on December 2 and fell 4.8m on to a concrete floor.<\/p>\n<p>He suffered a fractured skull and brain injuries and was flown to the Royal Brisbane and Women\u2019s Hospital in a critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Soko was charged with failing to implement appropriate control measures to eliminate or minimise the risk of a worker falling.<\/p>\n<p>No conviction was recorded.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Related article: <a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2019\/12\/02\/man-injured-in-fall-3\/\">Man Injured In Fall<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Gold Coast company has been fined $50,000 after a worker suffered critical injuries in a workplace incident at Kumbia in December 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":104807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,24],"tags":[1132],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - 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