Pink batts worker Matthew Fuller was untrained, unsupervised, inquest hears Matthew Fuller and his partner Monique Louise Pridmore had an accident while installing insulation, leaving Fuller dead and Pridmore with an injured leg. Picture: Patrick Hamilton Source: The Daily Telegraph MATTHEW Fuller was inexperienced and inadequately trained when he was fatally electrocuted installing insulation under the Rudd government's pink batts scheme, an inquest has heard. Fuller, 26, died on October 14, 2009, just two weeks after he started working for QHI Installations Pty Ltd. His girlfriend, Monique Pridmore, was badly burned in the incident, which occurred when Fuller pierced a live electrical cable with a metal staple. Queensland Coroner Michael Barnes is leading an inquest into the deaths of three young men during the rollout of the federal government's policy and today heard QHI had not properly supervised their young workers, who had received no training and had no prior experience. Workplace Health and Safety Queensland principal inspector investigations Douglas Innes said QHI had been warned twice in the week before Fuller died about its workers having electrical problems in roofs. One incident had involved Fuller himself, who nicked a cable in another house, causing sparks to fly. In the second incident, a worker drove a staple through a cable causing the home's power to switch off. The inquest heard one of QHI's senior executives had gone to a Master Builders course in September 2009, which warned there was a "high risk of electrocution" when using metal staples with foil insulation. Fuller died in that situation one month later. Contrary to the federal scheme, the inexperienced workers were not supervised. They received a morning briefing from a senior staffer and were then sent to job sites alone. The "supervisor" was then available by phone if something went wrong. The inquest heard QHI was fined $100,000 and its executive officer was fined $10,000 in relation to Fuller's death. It was the first company prosecuted over the botched scheme's rollout.