Construction site death
WorkSafe ACT and police are investigating the death of a 60-year-old man on a construction site in Denman Prospect on Tuesday morning.
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Tradesman dies a gruesome death
A tradesman has died after sustaining fatal injuries in a work place accident involving a scissor lift at a worksite in Melbourne.
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Man crushed to death in shipping container
A man has died after 3.6 tonnes of panels fell onto the shipping container he was in.
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Lawyers push for coronial inquest to probe who prosecutes mining fatalities
Less than a week after another mining death in Queensland, questions are being raised about how fatal incidents should be prosecuted.
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157 Australian workers killed in 2019
There were 157 Australians who left for work last year and never came home, according to the latest preliminary government data.
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Man killed in accident at central Queensland mine
Emergency services were called to the Curragh coal mine, 30 kilometres north of Blackwater, just before 4:30pm (local time) on Sunday.
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Worker dies after falling from roof
A 55-year-old man has fallen from a roof at a demolition site adjacent to the Campus East student accommodation, located at the northern end of the Innovation Campus in Squires Way, North Wollongong.
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Construction site death in ACT
Police and WorkSafe inspectors on Saturday launched an investigation at an under-construction townhouse complex in Denman Prospect following the death of a worker on the site.
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Ride-on mower death
A Queensland woman has died after getting trapped underneath a ride-on lawn mower.
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Workplace bullies get gaol sentences.
Former executives at France Télécom have been given prison sentences and fines after being found guilty of “institutional harassment” and creating a culture of routine workplace bullying that sparked a number of suicides at the company.
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Will tourism companies be held accountable over New Zealand volcano disaster?
Sixteen people are confirmed dead and another two are unaccounted for, presumed dead, after the eruption of White Island/Whakaari volcano on December 9. Twenty-six people remain in New Zealand and Australian hospitals, all with severe burns requiring complex surgery.
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Company fine over Eagle Farm deaths was ‘disproportionate’, judge rules
The company at the centre of a Brisbane workplace accident in which two men were crushed to death under a concrete slab has been hit with a tougher fine after an appeal.
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Victoria Enacts Law On Industrial Manslaughter
The new law of State of Victoria incriminates businesses and officers whose negligent conduct leads to incidence of workplace death and they shall be guilty of workplace manslaughter. The partnership concern, corporate entities and associations shall be liable for fines of up to AU$ 16.5 million while sole traders and officers shall face 20 years of goal time.
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Whakaari/White Island: Police and WorkSafe launch investigations
This investigation will run in parallel to a health and safety WorkSafe investigation into the disaster, Police Deputy Commissioner John Tims announced on Tuesday.
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