Alcoa fined for refinery fatality

ALCOA has been fined $210,000 and ordered to pay costs of $75,000 over the death of contractor Benjamin White at the Kwinana alumina refinery in 2015.

Alcoa's Kwinana refinery

29 January 2021
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The New Zealand-born father of two fell about 12m to his death while removing scaffolding from inside a bank of digesters at the refinery on November 25 2015.

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