SEQ water grid farce - workers out of control ...

Excerpt from Courier Mail:

28 July 2008

Nine workers have been sacked after they allegedly used a contractor's heavy machinery to build an earth ramp over which they jumped one of the worker's vehicles.

The worker's Toyota Hilux was then crushed by an excavator and bulldozer before being carted off.

The destruction on July 17 at a work site on a key section of the Queensland Government's water grid known as the northern pipeline interconnector was filmed on a worker's mobile phone.

The workers allegedly first used a contractor's excavator and bulldozer to build an earth ramp.

They then drove a 1980s model Toyota Hilux at speed over the ramp in a spectacular jump.

Three workers were in the Hilux when it took the jump at a pipeline work site land adjacent to Walton Road, Beerwah.

The utility truck was then crushed by the excavator and the bulldozer.

A crane used on the pipeline was allegedly used to place the wrecked vehicle onto a flatbed truck for removal.

The pipeline is part of the $9 billion water grid being installed across southeast Queensland by the Southern Regional Water Pipeline Alliance (SRWPA).

See - Courier Mail - Nine sacked for Toyota Hilux demolition derby.