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Steel company fined $80,000 for worker crushed by a suspended load

On 22 January 2026, a steel supplier, processor and distributor was sentenced in the Mackay Magistrates Court for breaching section 32 of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (Qld) (‘the Act’), having failed to comply with its primary health and safety duty.