A company which provides services to the energy industry is defending a charge laid after a fatal industrial accident at the Makara windfarm near Wellington.
Transfield Services is before Wellington District Court on a charge of breaching the Health and Safety in Employment Act.
Edwin Sarmiento, 42, died in June last year after a machine similar to a cherry-picker toppled down a steep gully at the Makara Windfarm.
Another employee sustained several serious injuries.
A Labour Department lawyer told the court on Monday that the two were employees of Electrix, a company contracted to assist Transfield with work at the windfarm.
The main issue in the case is whether Transfield took all practicable steps to ensure that its workers and those of its contractors were not harmed.
The case is set down for a week.
