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Business owner pleads guilty to gross negligence after worker died in 9m fall from shed roof near Esperance
A small business owner is facing the prospect of a lengthy prison sentence after pleading guilty to gross negligence that resulted in the death of a young worker on Western Australia’s south coast last year.
Key points:
- Jake Williams, 25, died in March last year after falling off a shed on a farm near Esperance
- Co-worker Fraser Pinchin, 21, was seriously injured in the same incident
- Shed building company MT Sheds and its director, Mark Thomas Withers, faced a total of seven separate charges in court today
Mark Thomas Withers, the sole director of shed building company MT Sheds, appeared in the Esperance Magistrates Court today via audio-link and entered endorsed pleas of guilty.
Two workers employed by his company in March last year were…
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