Avant Stone is stone slab supplier to stonemasons and builders, based in Sydney and Newcastle. 10 people worked at the Sydney warehouse at the time Mr Bauer was moving stone slabs for a client ...

The 56-year-old warehouse worker, identified as Anton Bauer, died on August 20, 2022, when he was crushed beneath two stone slabs at the company’s warehouse in Beresfield, a northwestern suburb of ...

The two slabs are designed to stand 1404mm apart, with a reason for that precise figure. Wrapping around the faces o ...

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An Australian stone company has been fined nearly half a million dollars after one of its workers was crushed to death by 600kg of stone. Avant Stone, a stone supplier based in both Sydney and ...

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