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"Simple" controls would have prevented workplace drowning, duty holders fined $720k
Two companies, including one that failed to implement a mandatory rescue plan for excavation work, have been fined a total of $720,000, plus $35,000 in costs, in relation to the drowning of a worker in a trench.
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