Magistrate Webster of the Magistrates Court of Tasmania has acquitted a sole trader charged under the Work Health and Safety Act 2012 (Tas) (the WHS Act) following the 2021 Hillcrest Primary School tragedy in which six children died and others were seriously injured while using a jumping castle during a school event.
Jumping castle operator acquitted by Tasmanian Magistrates Court Read More »
WorkSafe has charged a transport company and a commercial laundry operator after a driver died following a fall from a truck’s elevated tailgate at Dandenong South in June 2023.
Two companies charged after fatal tailgate fall Read More »
WorkSafe has charged a diesel mechanic after a worker was fatally struck by the garbage truck he was operating in June 2023.
Mechanic charged after fatal garbage truck crush Read More »
Work on farms accounts for one in every five workplace deaths in NSW.
Farm injuries show safety must be taken seriously Read More »
The fine handed down to the first company prosecuted under Victoria’s workplace manslaughter laws has been more than doubled on appeal.
Company fine doubled to $3m for workplace manslaughter Read More »
A metal galvanizing business has been convicted and fined $340,000 after a worker was fatally crushed when a suspended load fell from a crane at a Dandenong South factory.
Metal finisher fined $340,000 after worker’s death Read More »
The death of a man who was hit by a truck at a recycling centre in Sydney’s west has triggered a safety warning at worksites across NSW. An investigation has been launched after the man in his 50s died while working at the Greenacre site about 7.30pm yesterday. Just hours earlier, a worker in his
Worker killed at Sydney recycling centre, sparking urgent SafeWork warning Read More »
Emergency services were called to the scene at Auld St in Eastwood about 8.45am Wednesday.
Tragic fatal workplace incident Read More »
While transport, construction and agriculture were the deadliest sectors in 2024, workplace fatalities were spread across more than half of all industries and involved dozens of occupations.
Workplace Tragedy Does Not Discriminate Read More »
No-one will know what led orchard worker and grandfather Falaniko Ah Lin to drive a cherry picker into a 33,000 volt overhead power line.
Electrocuted orchard worker: WorkSafe and coroner at odds about accident Read More »
The death of a 70-year-old worker on his second shift in January 2022 has led to hundreds of thousands of fines against two companies for their work health and safety negligence.
Two companies fined $415,000 after fatal workplace accident Read More »
The poets and philosophers are right: life is fragile, so take care of yourself. This particularly applies to pilots who hold the lives of others literally in their hands.
Without warning – pilot incapacitation Read More »
A labour hire company has been convicted and fined a total of $415,000 after a fruit picker died following a fall from a moving trailer during his second shift with the company.
Labour hire company fined $415,000 after worker’s death Read More »
Victorian employers faced serious legal and financial consequences for putting workers at risk last year, with WorkSafe completing 119 successful health and safety prosecutions and enforceable undertakings.
Employers cop $13.3 million for safety breaches in 2024 Read More »
Melbourne School And Travel Company Fined 300k Over Students Death
Total fines of $290,000 have been charged against a travel company and a school after a 16-year-old boy suffered fatal diabetes complications during a school trip to Vietnam in 2019.
Melbourne school and travel company fined $300k over student’s death Read More »
