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Margaret Scheikowski

HISTORICAL FACTS: Roofing company fined after worker s death - Caught on Camera

A roofing company has been fined $600,000 after a worker was electrocuted and five others injured. (AAP)

Just 17 days after a labourer was electrocuted and another seriously burned, four other roof workers fell four metres onto concrete ground at a nearby Sydney site.

In fining Perry's Roofing Pty Ltd $600,000, a judge said it almost "defies belief" that the company did not immediately carry out a "root and branch" review of safety at all of its sites after the first incident.

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