10 hours Ago By Anne Gibson
WorkSafe has released an image of a quad bike on which a man was killed and has issued a warning about the maintenance of such bikes. Ethen Payne, 31, a Tararua farmhand, was killed on the bike, which rolled over at low speed. Yesterday, farm manager and bike owner, Dane Hemphill, was sentenced for health and safety failures discovered by a WorkSafe investigation.
That could have been avoided if the farm manager had kept the bike in good working order, WorkSafe said. Worn brakes, uneven tyre pressure, and poor suspension were among the defects found on the bike that flipped at low speed and killed Payne at an Eketāhuna dairy farm in November 2022..
