Prosecution Details | Prosecutions Database | Department of Commerce: The Accused and one of his employees elevated the EWP and recommenced cutting branches from the trees using a chainsaw.
The employee was operating the EWP controls and extended the booms to their full length (platform floor height of 13.8 metres; nominal working height of 15.8 metres) to cut a limb off a tree. As the employee was lowering the lower boom, the front passenger side stabiliser leg sunk into an old drain or soak well in the ground.
The EWP tipped over, the boom struck the ground and the employee and the Accused were ejected from the bucket and landed on the roof of 32 Harley Way, Medina.
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