Three Ngāi Tahu artists to be given mentors and $15,000 each
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IHC service arm ordered to pay $550k over Taranaki bath drowning
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An autopsy report concluded the cause of death was “not inconsistent with death due to drowning”. The charge was laid by WorkSafe New Zealand, which said the company failed to comply with its health and safety duties and this exposed the woman to risk of death and serious injury. Idea Services initially denied the charge but pleaded guilty as the December trial entered its second week. It’s not the first time a service user has drowned in a bath while in the care of Idea Services. In January 2014, a 15-year-old drowned while staying at a respite home in Palmerston North run by the company after staff left him alone for 15 minutes, despite it being known he required continuous supervision.
The men are among 19 people killed in mast-bumping crashes in Robinson helicopters in New Zealand. Mast-bumping, sometimes called rotor blade divergence, occurs when an inner part of the main rotor mechanism hits the main rotor drive shaft. Pilots have less than a second to react before the blades slice through the cabin, causing the chopper to break up in flight. It can happen in any helicopter, usually in turbulent or low-gravity conditions, but in Robinsons it is almost always fatal.
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The wreckage of the helicopter crash that killed Stephen Anthony Nicholson Combe, 42, of Wānaka, and James Louis Patterson Gardner, 18, of Queenstown.