A1 Arbor Tree Services Pty Ltd has been convicted and fined $2.025 million dollars in the NSW District Court over the death of a worker who was killed while using a woodchipper in 2019. The multi-million-dollar penalty is the single largest court imposed fine for a business in the state. The court heard on 7 September 2019, A1 Arbor Tree Services was in Lindfield to remove trees from the grounds of a local school, where a 40-year-old victim, a Fijian national, was fatally injured. The court heard A1 Arbor did not complete a risk assessment of the equipment, which had several defects.

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