Nickel miner fined $810k over boilermaker's spinal injury

First Quantum Minerals fined $810k over incident that left worker with severe spinal injury

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Mining company FQM Australia Nickel, a subsidiary of Canadian Giant First Quantum Minerals, has been fined $810,000 over a 2023 incident that left a worker at its Ravensthorpe Nickel Mine seriously injured.

The worker suffered severe spinal injuries when he was struck by an unsecured piece of heavy equipment known as a "Roman shield".

Magistrate Rosemarie Myers said the company's poor safety record increased the seriousness of the breach.