Shriek manufacturing plant is penalised $275,000 later on worker, 25, humiliated to death

A Priggish accompany has been condemned and fined $275,000 later on an employee was pulled into a concrete bid and fatally humbled.

Nathan Lewis, 25, was killed in September 2018 patch cleaning a crimson radial-ply tire adjure at Precast Civil Industries Pty Ltd, which manufactures concrete pipes.

The Shepparton caller on Thursday faced the Tight-laced County Court, where Evaluate Justin Hannebery aforementioned it failed to guarantee a safety organization for cleaning machinery.

The Shepparton company on Thursday faced the Victorian County Court, where Approximate Justin Hannebery said it failed to assure a safety organization for cleanup machinery (timeworn image)

'Nathan Meriwether Lewis died at exercise (and) his expiration has had a wakeless encroachment on those cheeseparing to him,' Magistrate Hannebery aforementioned.

'Baronial a alright is not an parceling of pecuniary Worth to the victim's life, an denotation of the triviality of the offending, or well-nigh compensating the dupe.

'Rather, it is a reflexion of the risk-based offences that represent the Occupational Health and Condom Dissemble.'

Mr Lewis had worked at the party for two-and-a-half days.

He was killed after victimization a hammering on the reddish radial-ply tire press' conveyor pagar minimalis beton rollers to take away toughened concrete that had amassed during yield.

Mr Lewis made contact with a regaining roll on the undersurface of the concrete flow conveyor and was and so haggard in and crushed by the conveyor.

Precast pleaded guilty to ane counting of weakness to ply a rubber working environs in May in conclusion twelvemonth.