{"id":315365,"date":"2025-11-29T00:21:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T00:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/315365\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T00:21:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T00:21:13","slug":"victorian-education-department-charged-after-student-has-fingertips-severed-in-guillotine-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/315365\/","title":{"rendered":"Victorian education department charged after student has fingertips severed in guillotine accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The <a class=\"css-1lg16vp-StyledTextLink ezegcyi0\" data-link-type=\"article-inline\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/news\/vic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Victorian<\/a> Department of Education has been charged after a student suffered serious injuries when using a guillotine during class.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The 15-year-old Beechworth Secondary College student was injured in February 2024 while using the machine to cut sheet metal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">His hand was crushed in a shear point between the guillotine and its table, with the boy severing multiple fingertips.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-178igh4-StyledParagraph e1s06mna1\">Know the news with the 7NEWS app: <a class=\"css-h2mhmv-StyledContextualLink e1s06mna0\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/app?utm_source=7NEWS&amp;utm_medium=contextual-link-app&amp;utm_campaign=7news-app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Download today Arrow<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">WorkSafe has now charged the Department of Education with three offences related to the accident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The workplace safety watchdog alleges the department failed to provide guarding that prevented access to the rear of the guillotine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">It also allegedly \u201cfailed to provide adequate supervision\u201d, WorkSafe said, and did not ensure there were warning signs or restricted access to the guillotine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The matter is listed for a mention hearing in the Wodonga Magistrates Court in January 2026.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"css-6fiqrm-StyledLinkWrapper e1y7kr221\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/news\/two-mining-companies-charged-after-fatal-rockfall-accident-at-ballarat-gold-mine-c-20809415\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Major update after father-of-two killed in mining accident<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xp0jgm-StyledTimeToRead e1y7kr223\">1 min read<\/p>\n<p><\/a><a class=\"css-6fiqrm-StyledLinkWrapper e1y7kr221\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/news\/man-stabbed-in-the-arm-during-violent-road-rage-incident-in-broadmeadows--c-20809941\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Man stabbed during wild road rage incident outside police station <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xp0jgm-StyledTimeToRead e1y7kr223\">2 min read<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Victorian Department of Education has been charged after a student suffered serious injuries when using a guillotine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[99,43,44,41,39,42,40,7481,48155],"class_list":{"0":"post-315365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories","15":"tag-vic-news","16":"tag-workplace-matters"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}