WorkSafe has charged a plumbing contractor after a worker was injured when a two-metre deep trench partially collapsed during works at a residential property at Mount Waverley in August 2024.
Plumbfirst Employment Pty Ltd faces two charges under section 21(1) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act for failing to provide a working environment that was safe and without risks to health.
WorkSafe alleges the company twice breached section 21(2)(a) of the OHS Act by failing to provide or maintain a safe system of work when it failed to ensure shoring and trench shields that extended above the ground surface were used inside the excavation.
The matter is listed for a filing hearing at the Dandenong Magistrates' Court on 14 July 2026.
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