Queensland man electrocuted in workplace incident near Mackay
The man is understood to have died while digging a trench at a private property.
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Pool and Department of Education charged after drowning
WorkSafe has charged a Port Fairy pool operator and the Department of Education and Training after an eight-year-old boy drowned while on a school excursion.
Bakery charged with workplace manslaughter
WorkSafe has charged garlic bread manufacturer Centenary Bakehouse with multiple health and safety breaches after a worker fell to their death in August 2021.
Company fined after manager crushed to death
A Victorian company has been fined $225,000 after a manager was fatally crushed inside a shipping container.
Gate repair company charged after fatal crush
WorkSafe has charged a gate manufacturing and repair business after the death of another company’s worker in April 2022.
Worker killed from machinery
A Melbourne rubber product manufacturer has been charged over the death of an employee who was hit in the head by a piece of machinery.
Fine increased by Court of Appeal
A Victorian mechanics business that serviced a petrol tanker days before it crashed and killed three people in the state’s north east in 2014 has had its fine increased after an appeal.
School maintenance worker killed
A beloved maintenance worker at a school in Melbourne’s southeast has been remembered as “kind” and “compassionate” after he died following a workplace accident at the school.
Titan Plant Hire and managing director Jason Madalena fined $1.14 million over Dwayne Beaumont’s death
The largest ever penalty for a workplace death in the Northern Territory has been handed to a Darwin equipment hire company and its managing director over the death of a worker in 2019.
Truck driver found dead in Shepparton warehouse coolroom
WorkSafe is investigating the death of a truck driver whose body was found in a coolroom in regional Victoria
‘Catastrophic governance failure’: Victorian council sacked following employee murder
ormer council worker Andrew Robert Paterson is serving a minimum 21-year sentence over the murder of council operations manager Rick Devlin.
Queensland man dies after being crushed by fibreglass pool at work
A man in his 50s has died after being crushed by a fibreglass pool at work.
Roofing company fined after two serious incidents just weeks apart
A roofing company has been convicted and fined almost half a million dollars in total after a man died and several others were injured in two separate workplace incidents in Sydney three years ago.
Tour company fined after Japanese schoolboys drown on Qld island
When Hiroshi Mizuno last saw his son, the teenager’s eyes were filled with hope as he waved cheerfully before boarding a plane to Australia.
SA company fined after worker’s deadly fall
An Adelaide asbestos removal company has been fined $150,000 after a worker fell to his death.
