A1 Engineering fined after worker crushed to death at old cheese factory

Two men were loading heavy equipment into a container when it fell from a crane. (Wikimedia Commons: Mattinbgn/CC BY-SA 3.0)

Victorian regional business A1 Engineering has been convicted and fined $250,000 in the County Court after one of its workers was killed while decommissioning an old cheese factory in Leitchville in the state's north.  

Two A1 Engineering workers were inside the container in December 2016 preparing to remove skates from underneath the 770kg condenser when it fell off a jack and crushed them.