An experienced gas-fitter who failed to properly inspect a colleague's work has been ordered to pay nearly $90,000 in reparation and fines after a 12-year-old boy died because of his mistake.
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Michael Cartwright leaves the Dunedin District Court after being sentenced for a charge laid under the Plumbers, Gasfitters and Drainlayers Act.
An experienced gas-fitter who failed to properly inspect a colleague s work has been ordered to pay nearly $90,000 in reparation and fines after a 12-year-old boy died because of his mistake. Jesse Samuel, of Alexandra, was found slumped in a small shower unit at his family s holiday home in Haast on October 10, 2018.
Paramedics tried to save Jesse for almost an hour, but he was unable to be revived. An autopsy found he died of carbon monoxide poisoning, which was caused by the gas water heater installed in the shower unit.
Wednesday, 27 January 2021, 4:09 pm
The gas water heater used to supply a shower in which a
12-year-old boy died in 2018, should never have been
installed inside the bathroom says WorkSafe.
The
victim was using a shower at his family’s holiday home and
died as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning. The gas from
the water heater had built-up in the small, unventilated
bathroom unit.
Central Plumbing Limited and Michael
James Cartwright were sentenced in the Dunedin District
Court today after being charged under the Plumbers,
Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Act 2006 in relation to the
incident. Michael James Cartwright is a Director of the