Builder charged over worker’s fatal fall from suspended plank
•BlueSafe Team•Source: WorkSafe VIC
Great Home Group Pty Ltd has been charged following a fatal fall involving a 56-year-old worker who was pouring concrete from a plank suspended between two A-frame ladders.
The worker suffered serious head injuries after falling more than two metres.
The company faces one charge under section 26(1) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act. The charge concerns an alleged failure to ensure a workplace under its management or control was safe and without risks to health.
It is alleged Great Home Group failed to eliminate or reduce the risk of serious injury or death by not providing, or ensuring workers used, a passive fall prevention device.
A filing hearing is scheduled at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on 12 January 2026.
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