died after a workplace accident<\/a> at the Southland business, operated by WasteCo on May 2, 2025.<\/p>\nHealth and safety regulator WorkSafe said WasteCo NZ Limited had been charged with violations of the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015.<\/p>\n
“Businesses and organisations must manage their risks, and when they do not we will hold them to account,” said WorkSafe area manager Gary Lowther.<\/p>\n
The maximum penalty was a fine not exceeding $1.5 million.<\/p>\n
In a statement posted on the NZX, WasteCo confirmed it had been charged and that a court process would begin.<\/p>\n
“WasteCo will not be commenting on the detail of the charge while the matter is before the court,” the statement read. <\/p>\n
“The company continues to support those affected by the incident and remains focused on its ongoing health and safety reset across the business.”<\/p>\n
WasteCo was contracted by the Southland District Council to operate the transfer station.<\/p>\n
At the time of the incident, council group manager Fran Mikulicic said the whole council was shocked and saddened by the tragedy.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll our thoughts and sympathy are with the family of the deceased,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WorkSafe has charged WasteCo NZ over the death of a woman at a Te Anau transfer station last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,1122,42,43,15488,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-412607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-employment","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-southland","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412607","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=412607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}