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Titan Plant Hire and managing director Jason Madalena fined $1.14 million over Dwayne Beaumont's death

The court heard Dwayne Beaumont had not received the necessary training and inductions for loading the excavator before the incident.  (Supplied)

The largest ever penalty for a workplace death in the Northern Territory has been handed to a Darwin equipment hire company and its managing director over the death of a worker in 2019.

Titan Plant Hire was fined $960,000 over the death of 30-year-old Dwayne Beaumont, who died after he was struck by an unsecured excavator bucket while guiding the hired machine onto another vehicle.

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