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Stephanie Gardiner

Disability provider faces $1.8m fine over burns death

LiveBetter's workers who looked after Kyah Lucas had limited formal training. (Stephanie Gardiner/AAP PHOTOS)

A disability support provider faces a $1.8 million fine over the death of a young Indigenous woman who was severely burnt when poorly-trained carers gave her a bath.

Kyah Lucas suffered burns to 35 per cent of her body when she was bathed at her home in Orange, in central west NSW, by two workers from NDIS provider LiveBetter on February 2, 2022.

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