Action needed on industrial manslaughter
An increase in workplace fatalities highlights the need for industrial manslaughter to be recognised as a criminal offence.
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Death
Company and director fined $466,000
Valley Sweep and its director Anton Zakic pleaded guilty in the Latrobe Valley Magistrates’ Court to a single charge each under the Occupational Health and Safety Act of failing to provide and maintain safe plant.
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Roof collapse leaves worker dead and two others injured
A 23-year-old apprentice worker has died and two others have been injured after a glass roof collapsed at a construction site at Curtin University in Western Australia.
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Tradesman killed by electric shock
The 29-year-old was working in the roof space of a beauty salon on King William Road when he received an electric shock and was taken to hospital in a critical condition.
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Worker crushed to death
A man has died after a piece of machinery fell off a truck and on top of him in a horror workplace accident in central west NSW.
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Dreamworld fined $3.6m
Dreamworld’s parent company has been fined $3.6 million after pleading guilty to safety charges over the Thunder River Rapids ride tragedy that killed four people.
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Paper mill fined $1 million after deaths of two workers
A former paper mill operator has been fined more than $1 million following the deaths of two employees at the site.
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WorkSafe investigates two regional deaths
WorkSafe is investigating incidents leading to the deaths of two men in regional areas at the weekend.
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Company fined over workplace death
A residential construction company has been fined $850,000 following the death of a tradesman who fell from a building site in Kalkallo.
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Electrician killed on job
The heartbroken sister of a Kilsyth electrician who died at work has remembered him as a selfless, hardworking brother who would do anything to support his young family.
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Qld business owner charged over death
A Queensland business owner has been charged with industrial manslaughter over the death of a worker last year.
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A mining contractor fined over bee sting death
Indus Mining Services has been fined $60,000 over the death of a contractor who suffered a severe allergic reaction to a bee sting.
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Company fined for carpenter’s death
A construction company has been issued five “fall from height” improvement notices since a carpenter fell more than three metres and died on its watch.
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Lilydale man dead after tip truck crushes him
A 34yo Yarra Ranges family has been left devastated after a man was crushed to death while repairing a truck.
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Hire company fined after worker’s death
United Access Pty Ltd was sentenced in the Melbourne County Court on Wednesday last week following the August 2017 death of a worker who was thrown from a mobile elevated work platform (EWP).
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