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Dan Oakes and Kristian Silva

Crane company convicted and fined over fatal safety breach at Box Hill site

Shaun Burns was killed after a container of concrete fell on him at a Box Hill construction site. (Facebook)

A crane company has been convicted and fined $400,000 after a worker died when a large container filled with concrete fell on him at a Melbourne building site.

Shaun Burns was killed and two other workers injured — one left a paraplegic — in 2018 after the mechanism securing the container failed at the Box Hill site. Clark Cranes was subsequently found guilty of two workplace safety charges during a trial in the County Court.

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