Insurers of the Waihi mining company convicted over the death of one of its workers has appealed aspects of the reparation order.
OceanaGold Waihi's general manager, Bernie O'Leary, said the company would still pay the reparation to the family of Tipiwai Stainton regardless of the appeal.
Stainton died on July 28, 2016, after the loader he was driving fell 15m off a vertical edge into a void at OceanaGold's Correnso mine in Waihi.
In the Tauranga District Court on May 9, Judge Thomas Ingram ordered OceanaGold to pay $728,000 in fines and reparation over the death.
O'Leary said OceanaGold had accepted liability for Stainton's death and the company would support his family irrespective of the outcome of the appeal.