Cleanaway Operations, formerly Transpacific Industries, faces $1.5m fine in SA court over chemical fire
A WASTE company has admitted responsibility for a 2013 chemical fire that injured an employee, and now faces a maximum $1.5 million fine.
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A WASTE company has admitted responsibility for a 2013 chemical fire that injured an employee, and now faces a maximum $1.5 million fine.
In the Adelaide Magistrates Court on Thursday, Cleanaway Operations Pty Ltd pleaded guilty to one count of failing to comply with its health and safety duty.
The Federal offence carries a maximum penalty of a $1.5 million fine.
The company was charged under its former name, Transpacific Industries, over a fire at a Wingfield chemical processing plant in July 2013.
One of the company’s workers was knocked to the ground, and sustained burns, when a flash-fire was sparked in a large distillation tank.
Federal workplace health and safety regulator Comcare alleged the company had been attempting to distil industrial solvent from chemical waste at the time of the fire.
On Thursday, the charge was amended to name Cleanaway instead of Transpacific, a guilty plea was entered through counsel, and the matter was adjourned for six weeks.
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