Rapid Perforating Pty Ltd was sentenced in the Melbourne County Court today after pleading guilty to a single charge of failing, as far as was reasonably practicable, to provide or maintain plant that was safe and without risks to health. The court heard the worker, who had been working at the factory for a month, was operating a turret punch - a large machine used to perforate sheets of metal. Co-workers found the worker pinned between the machine's travelling carriage, which moved metal sheets around the turret, and one of two tables placed at the front of the machine and bolted to the ground to support the sheet metal as it slid out.

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