Norske Skog representatives have pleaded guilty to a workplace charge following an incident which killed two employees and left another seriously injured.
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The company faced the District Court in Sydney on Monday following the deaths of Lyndon Quinlivan and Ben Pascall in a gas leak in May 2018.
Tom Johnson was badly injured but was later released from hospital.
A guilty plea was entered to health and safety breaches under the Work Health Safety Act.
The case will return to the court on September 15.
Mr Quinlivan's wife, Jacci, said the plea did not provide much relief.
"As far as I'm concerned, nothing is going to bring my husband back," she said.
"I'm very upset.
"Now that it's come to a plea, it's taken us all the way back to day one.
"The court process in itself is very traumatising.
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"Each time you would hold on, then the mention would come around and you'd find out how it went, and there would be another adjournment.
"It's two years since the incident."
The company was charged late last year.
Ms Quinlivan hasn't attended any of the brief court hearings, but plans to attend in September.
She has advocated for tougher laws to be introduced in NSW.
I'm fighting to make change so that other families don't have to go through the pain we go through on a daily basis
- Jacci Quinlivan, who lost her husband Lyndon in the 2018 incident
Workplace manslaughter laws came into force in Victoria last week.
Individuals can face up to 25 years in jail, and companies can be fined up to $16.5 million under the changes.
Ms Quinlivan believes introducing similar laws in NSW could help to prevent needless deaths.
"At the end of the day it becomes a reminder that industrial manslaughter laws need to be brought in in NSW," she said.
"I'm fighting to make change so that other families don't have to go through the pain we go through on a daily basis."
"All I want to do is help people and make the general public aware of how easy things like this can happen.
"I now have to raise our two kids on our own.
"I'll never stop fighting for my husband.
"I'm still my husband's voice."