Demolition Saw Injures Worker
The CareFlight rescue helicopter was called to an accident at Balgowlah Heights.
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2021
Mint facing charges for breaching federal WHS laws
The Royal Australian Mint has been charged with breaching the federal Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (WHS Act), after a three-tonne coin press almost fell on a worker in Canberra.
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Worker injured after he was stuck by metal while down a 5m hole
A worker is in a serious condition after he was struck by sheets of reinforcing metal at the bottom of a 5m deep excavation.
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The Victorian government can’t evade the law
Why is it that Victorians, perhaps more specifically Melburnians, are having such a bad time with Covid in comparison to the other states? Why is this fourth lockdown occurring?
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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.
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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.
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Dandenong South factory death
A factory worker has tragically died in an accident at Dandenong South.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Vic farm worker dies in hay bale fall
A farm worker in eastern Victoria has died after six large hay bales fell on him.
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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.
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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.
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