Thursday, April 14, 2011

SA company fined over bizarre dive

Aquaculture company Clean Seas Tuna has been fined more than A$27,000 over an industrial accident in which a worker blacked out following a "bizarre" dive into a large fish cage out at sea. In a judgement handed down in the Magistrates Court of South Australia on Thursday, Industrial Magistrate Michael Ardlie said Chris Norman had to be rescued by another diver and spent a week in hospital after the incident in September 2007.

He had come to work at the company's Arno Bay facility, off Eyre Peninsula, affected by alcohol and initially went to sleep in the cabin of the company's vessel, Sultana, after it left shore to conduct maintenance work on the fish cages. Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little The Aquaculturists, published and supported by the International Aquafeed Magazine from Perendale Publishers
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