The Australian arm of the world's largest meat processor JBS has been convicted and fined after rejecting responsibility for a worker becoming trapped under hay bales weighing more than a tonne.
The administrative staffer has not been able to return to work from spinal fractures sustained after being struck by two hay bales, each weighing about 700kg, which fell from a partially constructed stack at a JBS Australia feedlot in the NSW New England region in February 2020.
