Disability Service Cops $1.8 Million Fine for Burns Death

Published on April 17, 2024

A disability support provider has been fined $1.8 million after admitting serious shortfalls in staff training that led to a vulnerable Indigenous woman dying from burns after being given a bath. Kyah Lucas suffered burns to 35 to 40 per cent of her body when she was bathed at her home in Orange, in central-west NSW, by two workers from NDIS provider LiveBetter on Feb. 2, 2022. The 28-year-old died in a Sydney hospital five days later. The Federal Court on April 17 ordered LiveBetter, the largest disability services provider in regional NSW, to pay the $1.8 million (US$1.16 million) penalty. “Almost the maximum penalty has been awarded with respect to the specific contraventions closely aligned with Ms. Lucas’s tragic, untimely death,” Justice Elizabeth Raper said....

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