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Date Time Toowoomba Second Range Crossing contractor fined $40,000 At a recent hearing in the Toowoomba Magistrates Court, a contractor on the Toowoomba Second Range Crossing was fined $40,000 for failing to comply with its health and safety duty exposing workers and others to a risk of serious injury or death. In August 2015, the company was sub-contracted to design and supply ‘Pier Formwork and Headstock Falsework’ at the Toowoomba Second Range Crossing. It also provided and erected scaffolding and supplied personnel for work on a number of piers at the viaduct on the construction site. On 23 April 2018, Workplace Health and Safety Queensland inspectors attended the TSRC site and inspected Pier 2 of the viaduct. The inspectors witnessed at least two workers on the pier prior to their inspection. The inspectors climbed the stretcher stairs to the decks of formwork. There were no controls to prevent persons from entering the scaffold stairs and accessing the formwork decks.

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