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Indus docked for Cataby bee sting death

INDUS Mining Services has been fined $60,000 and ordered to pay $6000 in costs over the death of a 34-year-old contractor who suffered a fatal allergic reaction after being stung by a bee in February 2018 at Iluka Resources' Cataby mine.

Cataby was known to have a problem with bees.

Cataby was known to have a problem with bees.

The mine site, about 150km north of Perth was known to have a problem with bees. Indus pleaded guilty in the Moora Magistrates Court before Magistrate Richard Bayly for failing to provide a safe working...

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