Charges against Gunns directors dismissed
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Gunns' chairman John Gay appeared in court with other company directors. (ABC News: Michael Brooks)
Workplace charges against the directors of Tasmanian timber company Gunns have been dismissed.
The directors had been charged with failing to maintain a plant in a safe condition.
Gunns' chairman John Gay and directors Robin Gray, Christopher Newman, Robin Holyman, Richard Millar and Cornelus Van Der Kley all appeared in the Launceston Magistrates Court today.
In June last year Mark Raymond Payne, a worker at the company's Invermay site, lost part of his finger while operating a docking saw.
Gunns pleaded guilty to failing to maintain a plant in a safe condition.
The company's bosses faced the same charges but they were dismissed by Zigmund Szramka on a legal technicality.
The company will be sentenced tomorrow.
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