Inquest hears Brisbane father's fatal fall occurred after ground was 'like a pie crust'

father who fell 40 metres from an elevated work platform has heard the ground beneath the machine was "like a pie crust".

Counsel Assisting Mark Plunkett today described the ground at the site on the day of the incident to be "like a pie crust""This is an inquest to search for a mechanism, which will probably be a legislative one, to prevent any repetition of this tragic event."

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