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Cleanaway Operations Pty Ltd: Comcare prosecution

criminal fine28 May 2026Penalty $1.10M

Respondent

Cleanaway Operations Pty Ltd

Facts

A newly hired driver, trained only on flat roads in an automatic truck, drove a loaded manual vacuum truck down the South-Eastern Freeway in 2014 and collided with cars at Cross Road, killing two motorists. Comcare found driver training and supervision were inadequate. Described as the largest penalty under federal WHS laws.

Outcome

Cleanaway Operations Pty Ltd was fined $1,100,000 in the Supreme Court (SA) (28 May 2026).

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Read the source

https://www.comcare.gov.au/about/news-events/news/record-whs-penalty-over-fatal-truck-crash

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