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Heart attack at home led to work-related death

The wife of a South Australian worker who had a heart attack at home before dying at work three days later has been awarded compensation, after the WCT found the worker's employment contributed to his death. Also in this article, an employer has been fined $75,000 for its "superficial" hazard checklist, after an overseas worker was dragged into a machine.