KiwiRail's been fined more than 200-thousand-dollars, after a worker was nearly killed in a preventable fall in 2023

It's admitted to breaching health and safety laws, when the employee fell 10 metres, while installing a communications pole in Whanganui.

WorkSafe's ruled the fall as entirely preventable, and discovered a fall arrest system wasn't in use - while climbing pegs on the pole had been incorrectly installed.

The worker suffered a torn artery and liver, a broken sternum, a punctured left lung, fractured vertebrae, and five fractured ribs.

WorkSafe is now urging all businesses that work at height, to review their safety systems.