Food giant fined $330,000 after forklift runs over worker’s left leg at Yanco feedlot

Food giant JBS Australia Pty Ltd has a feedlot in Yanco, where the accident occurred. Photo: Leeton Living website.

Australia’s largest meat and food processing business has been fined $330,000 after an employee was struck by a reversing forklift at a Yanco feedlot and subsequently had his left leg amputated.

Government regulator SafeWork NSW launched court action against JBS Australia Pty Ltd after investigating the incident. The company pleaded guilty to the offence of failing to comply to its work health and safety duty. JBS was convicted and also ordered to pay the regulator’s court costs in a decision published on Wednesday (29 October).

On the afternoon of 14 July 2022, cold stores attendant William Gaynes walked into the chilled stack-down area through the doorway of a rapid roll