Workplace gas leak
Authorities are investigating a gas leak at a salmon processing plant in southern Tasmania that resulted in 20 people being taken to hospital.
Month: May 2021
Worker in fall in stable condition
A young man has been rushed to Royal Perth Hospital after a suspected workplace accident at the soon to be revamped Karrinyup Shopping Centre.
Dandenong South factory death
A factory worker has tragically died in an accident at Dandenong South.
A workplace tragedy where no one gets off lightly
This day has been coming for some time. Still, a decision this week has sent dread around the boardrooms of Australia. In a first for Western Australia, a director of a small shed-building business has just been sentenced to serve actual jail time (not a suspended sentence) after the tragic death of a worker.
Multiple charges laid over death of Northern Territory worker in excavator accident
Five charges have been laid over the death of a 30-year-old worker who was crushed and killed by an excavator bucket in 2019 — including two charges against the company director and another charge against an employee.
Esperance business owner jailed after death of worker
A small-business owner in Esperance has become the first person in Western Australia to be jailed for gross negligence, after the death of a young worker last year and serious injuries to another.
Man injured after becoming trapped in rock crushing machinery
A man has been taken to hospital after his leg was trapped in rock crushing machinery in Sydney’s west.
Vic farm worker dies in hay bale fall
A farm worker in eastern Victoria has died after six large hay bales fell on him.
SafeWork SA investigating after man crushed by machinery in workplace incident at Waterloo Corner
A man has died at a business north of Adelaide this morning, police say.
Company fined $120,000 after truck runs over worker
Dandy Premix Concrete Pty Ltd was sentenced in the Dandenong Magistrates’ Court last Monday after being found guilty on 15 April of failing to provide a safe workplace by failing to take reasonably practicable steps to eliminate the risk of powered mobile machines colliding with pedestrians.
Worker killed by truck at Ingham’s chicken factory site at Burton
A man has been killed in a tragic workplace accident at Ingham’s chicken factory at Burton, in Adelaide’s northern suburbs, after a truck hit the employee.
Ultra Refrigeration fined after apprentice injured
A company has been fined $150,000 after one of its apprentice workers suffered serious injury from an arc flash explosion at a Sydney KFC in 2017.
Engineering company fined after crane collapes onto building
A structural engineering company has been fined $225,000 after three workers were injured when a tower crane collapsed onto an apartment block in Wolli Creek.
Deaths in Australia highlight plight of delivery riders
Lockdown-fuelled demand for take-out meals has brought throngs of new delivery riders onto streets around the world, but in Australia the boom has also seen tragedy with a spate of road deaths highlighting the plight of couriers.
Building company fined $175,000 over death of worker
Building company Gran Designs WA Pty Ltd has been fined a total of $175,000 over the 2017 death of a contract worker in the South-West town of Yarloop.
