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Scissor lifts should not be operated unless there is a person on the ground acting as a safety spotter, South Australia’s state coroner has recommended in response to the death of a worker during the construction of the new Royal Adelaide Hospital.
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A man killed during the construction of the new Royal Adelaide Hospital had been nervous about the work, an inquest into his death has heard.
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EXCLUSIVE | State Government workplace insurer ReturnToWork SA and the widow of Jorge Castillo-Riffo, killed while working on the new Royal Adelaide Hospital construction site in 2014, have both launched legal action against the hospital joint venture.
The Coroner’s inquest into the death of Jorge Castillo-Riffo on the new Royal Adelaide Hospital site will begin two days after the next state election, InDaily can reveal.
Premier Jay Weatherill has made a stunning intervention in a dispute between SafeWork SA and the grieving families of several construction workers killed on worksites over the past seven years, ordering the agency to release a report into why it failed to hold companies to account over the deaths of their loved ones.
The construction union and the widow of a worker killed on the new Royal Adelaide Hospital site say a series of witnesses have contacted them willing to testify against workplace regulator SafeWork over its handling of the investigation into the death of Jorge Castillo-Riffo in 2014.
Prosecution over the 2014 death of new Royal Adelaide Hospital construction worker Jorge Castillo-Riffo – sensationally abandoned earlier this year – was handed to private lawyers because the Crown Solicitor’s Office could not put the case together quickly enough, InDaily can reveal.
