Energy Australia’s $1.5M Fine After Worker’s Death

Energy Australia’s $1.5M Fine After Worker’s Death
A supplied undated image obtained Wednesday, November 14, 2018 of 54-year-old Victorian power station worker Graeme Edwards who was killed while re-installing a high-voltage circuit breaker. AAP Image/Supplied by Energy Australia
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Energy Australia has been fined $1.5 million (US$1.03 million) after a veteran Yallourn power station worker suffered fatal burns to 90 per cent of his body in an electrical explosion.

Graeme Edwards was highly trained and had worked at the power station for more than 30 years when he volunteered to connect a high-voltage cable to the section of the power station he worked on.

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