Business fatality case sets precedent
It is believed to be the first contested prosecution of its kind
Business fatality case sets precedent Read More »
It is believed to be the first contested prosecution of its kind
Business fatality case sets precedent Read More »
A Gippsland grain transporter has been convicted and fined $350,000 after a truck driver died when he fell almost four metres from the top of a trailer. D&A Martin Transport Pty Ltd ware sentenced in the Melbourne County Court after pleading guilty to a single charge of failing to provide and maintain plant that was
A Queensland company has been ordered to pay a $400,000 fine and a conviction recorded against them after the death of a voluntary ground official when a scaffold tower fell on him at a Mitchelton Sports complex on the 25th July 2021. The defendant, Mobile Scaffolds Queensland Pty Ltd, was charged with failing to comply
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For the first time, a strata management company and an owners’ corporation have been prosecuted together by SafeWork NSW over a fatality involving an industrial gate. The worker’s employer was also prosecuted. The three fines issued by the court total $750,000, plus costs. On 22 August in the District Court, the strata manager engaged by
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A Queensland bus company boss has expressed his remorse for failing in his workplace health and safety obligations to two young mechanics killed in a traffic crash on the Sunshine Coast.
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Emergency services rushed to rescue the trapped man but he couldn’t be saved.
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A Balwyn North concrete pumping company has been convicted and fined $50,000 after a concrete boom pump snapped and fatally struck a worker.
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Workers at a plant where a man was crushed to death by a 12-tonne crane had previously complained about its operator driving too fast, a judge has heard.
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A road safety equipment manufacturer has been convicted and fined a total of $650,000 after a truck driver was fatally crushed by a falling steel barrier at a Nar Nar Goon depot.
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A family-run business has shared their devastation after a 30-year-old worker was fatally crushed by a dump truck southeast of Adelaide.
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Scott’s Refrigerated Logistics Pty Ltd (SRL) was convicted and fined $800,000 following an incident on 6 July 2021.
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A worker fractured his skull, lost about two litres of blood, went into cardiac arrest and died during a horrific workplace accident in Dandenong South.
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A Youngtown man killed in a horrific waste compactor accident nearly a decade ago was not given safety guidelines or instructions on critical safety aspects of his job, a coroner has found.
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WorkSafe has charged a Melbourne school and an adventure travel company following the death of a student after an overseas trip in 2019.
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The widow of a man who plunged to his death in a zip line accident at Cape Tribulation four years ago listened as a witness gave evidence a ‘grandstand’ zip line was put together without recommended equipment.