Wesley Tomich was cleaning around a conveyor belt as it was still operational at Ballance Agri-Nutrients in Mt Maunganui in July 2023. The 37-year-old tried to step over the conveyor but lost his ...

Basic machine safety failures culminated in the death of a worker at one of New Zealand's biggest fertiliser companies where ...

A “ticking time bomb”. That’s how the conveyor belt system that killed factory worker Wesley Tomich has been described by his sister. “Traumatised” family members shared the impact of losing him in ...