POSTED: 16 Apr 2018
On 29 August 2013, Francesco Puleio was an employee of Olam Orchards Australia Pty Ltd and was working at the “Annuello” orchard in Wemen, Western Victoria. He died when a slasher, which was attached to a Kubota tractor, rolled onto him. The deceased had been using the tractor and slasher to mow grass on the property. A critical issue was the deceased’s level of intoxication at the time of the accident.Mrs Sandra Puleio, the widow of the deceased commenced proceedings in the Supreme Court of Victoria against Olam Orchards, in negligence and claimed damages. She claimed that her husband’s death was caused by the negligence of Olam Orchards and that as a “secondary victim” it also breached its duty of...
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