The court heard that on the day of victim’s death, he and other workers tried to move a 1.84-tonne press brake into the workshop. Workers lowered the press brake onto the stacker and skates and tried to pull it into the workshop. The press brake that fatally crushed a young worker at Peter Gray Engineering. The victim got a farm jack and tried to lift the press brake to reposition the dislodged skate. When he tried another full stroke of the jack’s ratchet mechanism, the press brake rocked backwards and then forwards.

Source: New Zealand Herald March 28, 2026 00:43 UTC