White Island volcano eruption: Whakaari Management found guilty of ‘astonishing’ safety failures
by Serena Solomon in Auckland with agencies from World news | The Guardian on (#6G06B)
New Zealand Justice Evangelos Thomas criticised failures of safety audits given obvious risks' that led to 2019 fatal eruption
A New Zealand court has found the owner of White Island/Whakaari, the offshore volcano that erupted in 2019, killing 22 people, guilty on one charge of breaching workplace safety laws.
On Tuesday, Auckland district court ruled Whakaari Management Limited (WML), the holding company of landowners Andrew, James and Peter Buttle, had not met its obligations to visitors to the volcano.
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