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Alcoa fined for refinery fatality

Falls from height are one of the main hazards leading to fatalities in mining.

 Alcoa's Kwinana refinery

Alcoa's Kwinana refinery

The New Zealand-born father of two fell about 12m to his death while removing scaffolding from inside a bank of digesters at the refinery on November 25 2015. The court heard White had climbed up the...

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