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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
National
Toby Vue

'Egregious breaches': Family company fined $450k after worker's fatal fall

Carpenter Thomas Magi, 60, centre, his wife Yidi Zhou, left, and the construction site.

A well-regarded family building company that took two decades to develop safety policies has been fined $450,000 after its "litany of egregious breaches of duty" led to a subcontractor falling to his death at a construction site.

Agreed facts tendered to the ACT Industrial Court state that Better Building Holdings engaged Thomas Magi, 60, to provide carpentry work in 2019 during the building of a three-storey residential dwelling in Denman Prospect.

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