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Subscriber only AN ELECTRICAL company and its director have been fined $81,000 after failures in the workplace led to the death of fourth-year apprentice electrician, Derick Suratin. NT WorkSafe charged Dexter Barnes Electrical and director Russell O Donnell in 2019. On Thursday, Dexter Barnes Electrical and O Donnell were sentenced in Alice Springs Local Court after pleading guilty in December to failing to comply with a health safety duty. The court heard in February 2019, Mr Suratin and a third-year electrical apprentice were on the roof of the Tennant Creek Fire Station, working unsupervised on a livewire system. Mr Suratin was electrocuted after touching a live wire while alone in the roof.
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