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Worker's thumb crushed at unsafe vegetable business

<p>A WESTERN Australian-based vegetable packing and export business in Wattleup has been fined $33,000 (plus almost $1200 in costs) over a lack of machinery guarding that resulted in a worker's thumb being crushed.</p>

Jessica Strauss
Worker's thumb crushed at unsafe vegetable business

  North East Equity Pty Ltd – trading as Sumich's – pleaded guilty to failing to provide a safe workplace and by that failure, causing serious injury to an employee and was fined in the Fremantle Magistrates...

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