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Employer failed to tackle unique but obvious forklift risk

A national employer has been fined at the upper limit of a penalty range recommended by Comcare, after the Federal Court found it failed to act on a foreseeable and easy-to-fix forklift risk for nearly two months before a worker sustained serious head injuries.

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