A BHP miner sacked for repeatedly punching his colleague in a violent fight at work has won his job back after the Fair Work Commission held there was no basis for the sacking as the worker acted in self-defence.
Deputy president Terri Butler ruled BHP unfairly dismissed the Caval Ridge, Queensland, miner as his punches were a proportionate response to a co-worker holding him in a headlock and hitting him while they were in the back of a ute.
