Hamilton Metropolis Council is about to seem in courtroom over the deadly mauling of a zookeeper by a tiger.
Samantha Kudeweh, forty three, was killed in September 2015 by Oz, an grownup male Sumatran tiger, in his enclosure at Hamilton Zoo.
WorkSafe in March laid expenses towards the council, alleging it had breached the Well being and Security in Employment Act by not taking all sensible steps to guard the keeper.
Each WorkSafe and the council are set to seem for a listening to on Thursday, though each have declined to remark additional on the matter.
The council faces a attainable most high-quality of $250,000 over the breach, Worksafe stated.
Ms Kudeweh was a senior member of the zoo’s group and had been a keeper for greater than 20 years.
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