Sergi Australia Pty Ltd is facing two charges under section 26(1) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act for failing to ensure that a workplace under its management and control was, so far as was reasonably practicable, safe and without risks to health.
The charges relate to the collapse of a mobile crane supplied by the company after pendant ropes used to manipulate an attached luffing jib failed during a lift.
It is alleged the company failed to provide pendant ropes in a serviceable condition and replace pendant ropes that were no longer in a serviceable condition, and failed to maintain a system of work in which pendant ropes were periodically inspected by a competent person.
The matter is listed for a filing hearing at Melbourne Magistrates' Court on 13 July 2023.
