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Eric Gerritsen, pictured about the time he was fined $115,000 in the Hamilton District Court, on a charge of obstructing a health and safety inspector who was investigating an incident involving one of his company s inflatable slides.
The man behind a company operating an inflatable slide in Whangamatā that spectacularly collapsed, badly injuring a man atop it, has been involved in numerous other slide failures in recent years.
Stuff he had no involvement with the slide that collapsed at Williamson Park last Monday. But the facts tell a different story.
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Louwan van Rooyen broke one ankle in three places and the other broke through the skin while on holiday in Whangamata.