Premium Content 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.