Urban Mining’s VIC prosecution shows why progress on guarding is not the same as controlling the risk. A practical look at verified corrective-action closure.

A recent Victorian prosecution involving Lemitech Pty Ltd provides another stark reminder that many fatal workplace incidents do not arise from complex failures, but from the absence of well-known and well-documented controls. The case relates to a fatal entanglement in a conveyor system at a poultry facility in Lethbridge, Victoria. While conducting inspection or adjustment activities, a worker became fatally entangled in moving conveyor components. The County Court later h