A prime mover and trailer travelled approximately 140 metres through fences, across a road and into neighbouring businesses. The driver forgot the park brake, but the organisation’s maintenance system had already been warned twice that the audible safety control was disabled.

Gerald Hoekstra and Ede Taric survived the initial Rainbow Desert Enduro collision, but not the fire that followed. The coronial findings expose how compliant equipment, unverified escape arrangements and inadequate fire suppression failed when they were needed most.

A man was fatally struck by metal debris ejected from a tractor-mounted slasher while standing approximately five metres away. The contractor knew the risk and had documented a 30 metre exclusion zone, but the work continued.