Wollongong council's $600k payout to man who tripped and fell at Mount Keira

Kate McIlwain
Updated April 14 2021 - 11:43pm, first published October 1 2020 - 4:00pm
Council 'breached duty of care': Since the disability support worker's accident at Mount Keira Summit Park in 2016, Wollongong City Council has painted the steps he tripped on bright yellow. Picture: Robert Peet.
Council 'breached duty of care': Since the disability support worker's accident at Mount Keira Summit Park in 2016, Wollongong City Council has painted the steps he tripped on bright yellow. Picture: Robert Peet.

Wollongong City Council has been ordered to pay more than $600,000 to a man who tripped and fell near the toilet block at Mount Keira Summit Park four years ago.

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Kate McIlwain

Kate McIlwain

Journalist

For more than a decade, I've helped the Illawarra Mercury set the news agenda across the region. Currently I'm the paper's health reporter - covering the stories of Illawarra workers and residents in the wake of a global pandemic and at a time where our health systems are stretched to the limit.

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