Coroner denies family plea for inquest into fatal fertiliser plant accident

Tuesday 26 August 2025 · 3 outlets · 3 reports · updated Tue 26 Aug 2025, 11:17am

In this story Bruce Hesketh, Ballance Agri-Nutrients

A coroner has declined a family's request for an inquest into the 2023 death of Wesley Tomich. Tomich died after being asphyxiated by machinery on an unguarded conveyor belt at the Ballance Agri-Nutrients plant in Mt Maunganui.

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1. RNZTue 26 Aug 2025, 4:57am

   Ballance Agri-Nutrients worker Wesley Tomich's family's plea for coronial inquest turned down (opens in new tab)

2. NZ HeraldTue 26 Aug 2025, 7:37am

   Wesley Tomich’s family’s plea for coronial inquest denied over fatal conveyor belt accident at fertiliser plant (opens in new tab)

3. Otago Daily TimesTue 26 Aug 2025, 11:17am

   Family's plea for inquest after conveyer belt death denied (opens in new tab)