PLUTONIC gold mine owner Billabong Gold was fined $550,000 plus costs of $4670 in the Carnarvon Magistrates Court on December 22 over an incident in 2020 in which two workers were struck by tooling ejected under pressure from a hydraulic ram.
Carnarvon Magistrate's Court
The company pleaded guilty before the court to being an employer that caused serious harm to an employee. The April 2020 incident was at Plutonic, which is about 300km from Meekatharra in Western Australia's...
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