‘That’s not a knife’: accidental stabbing not employer’s fault An earthmoving contractor has been sued for a stabbing wound from the owner’s son to a co-worker at a Redbank Plains construction site during a lunch break. Joshua Boon, a labour-hire employee deployed to Downer EDI’s civil works site at Highbury Drive who operated an asphalt laying paving machine, claimed $200k in injury compensation for the injury. The wound was inflicted at the hand of Tim Sommerfeldt, a bobcat driver for Downer subcontractor Big Bill’s Bobcats, owned by his father Bill. On 16 September 2011, they both took their lunch break on a grassy knoll […]