{"id":412181,"date":"2026-05-05T01:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T01:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/412181\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T01:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T01:59:11","slug":"te-anau-transfer-station-death-worksafe-lays-charge-against-wasteco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/412181\/","title":{"rendered":"Te Anau transfer station death: WorkSafe lays charge against WasteCo"},"content":{"rendered":"
Police and WorkSafe investigators attended the scene, which was temporarily secured while inquiries were carried out.<\/p>\n
WasteCo NZ confirmed it has been charged and said the matter will now proceed through the court process. <\/p>\n
The company said it would not comment further while proceedings are before the court.<\/p>\n
Lynda Kelly, a beloved stalwart of Te Anau, died in a workplace accident at the Te Anau transfer station on Friday, April 1, last year. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n
In a statement on the NZX, WasteCo said it continues to support those affected by the incident and remains focused on an ongoing health and safety review across its operations.<\/p>\n
WorkSafe New Zealand said its role is to ensure businesses meet their responsibilities to keep workers safe.<\/p>\n
\u201cBusinesses and organisations must manage their risks, and when they do not, we will hold them to account,\u201d said WorkSafe\u2019s area manager Gary Lowther.<\/p>\n
Born in Mandeville and adopted into a local farming family at a young age, Kelly was a beloved stalwart of Te Anau.<\/p>\n
A \u201cself-described tomboy\u201d who grew up on a sheep and beef farm, Kelly raised her children on a farm near Te Anau for two decades.<\/p>\n
After separating from her husband, she later partnered with Lindsay Stronach, her long-time companion of over 26 years.<\/p>\n
Together, they lived in the Te Anau-Manap\u014duri area and worked side by side at the transfer station, where Kelly eventually took on a formal role.<\/p>\n
During this time she also worked at the Aden Motel for nine years, as well as the freedom camping run and dog control with Stronach.<\/p>\n
Ben Tomsett is a multimedia journalist based in Dunedin. He joined the Herald in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police and WorkSafe investigators attended the scene, which was temporarily secured while inquiries were carried out. WasteCo NZ…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9092,164151,32294,634,12938,211913,194379,671,18220,3375,685,58658,170562,111,43,139,69,5270,38988,13655,8690,6699,52443,211912,17708,17705,379,80],"class_list":["post-412181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-against","tag-anau","tag-charge","tag-death","tag-filed","tag-grandmotherof13","tag-greatgrandmother","tag-incident","tag-kelly","tag-killed","tag-last","tag-lays","tag-lynda","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-one","tag-relation","tag-station","tag-te","tag-towns","tag-transfer","tag-wasteco","tag-workplace","tag-worksafe","tag-year","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}