Flour mill operator fined $56,250 in relation to crushing injury
Case
SafeWork NSW v Duralina Pty Ltd; SafeWork NSW v Mill HR Pty Ltd (2025)
Duralina Pty Ltd operates a semolina and flour mill in New South Wales. The mill has eight milling machines with double rollers and a fine milling machine with two sets of double rollers. Mill HR Ltd was a company set up to employ workers at the mill but does not otherwise trade. There is a sole director for both companies.
On 3 September 2021, there was an unplanned outage at the site, resulting in the milling machines, including the fine milling machine, being turned off.
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