Update after man crushed by dump truck
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 Logistics Slapped with $800K Fine After Fatal Accident
Scott’s Refrigerated Logistics Pty Ltd (SRL) was convicted and fined $800,000 following an incident on 6 July 2021.
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Company fronts court after worker suffers fatal injuries
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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‘No evidence’ worker killed in horror crush accident given safety training
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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Charges over student’s death on school trip
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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Former Jungle Surfing Canopy Tours boss Sheena Mary Walshaw on trial over zip line accident
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.
$1.3 million fine for workplace manslaughter
A stonemasonry business has become the first company convicted under Victoria’s workplace manslaughter laws after causing the death of a worker who was fatally crushed at a Somerton factory.
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Man dies after being crushed by pallet
Witnesses say teenage apprentices desperately tried to revive the 62-year-old man after he was crushed by a pallet jack at a western suburbs business.
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Executive jailed and ground-breaking WHS legal developments
On 23 January 2024 the National Operations Manager of a logistics business was sentenced to three years jail, ordered to pay $123,000 in legal costs and issued with an order prohibiting him from managing transport activities for 12 months upon his release from jail.
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Two Victorian companies charged after man dies in workplace
Two Victorian companies have been charged after a man suffered fatal head injuries in a workplace accident in 2022.
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Perth parents hit out at six-figure fines
A Perth couple has slammed the fines imposed on two companies and a night shift supervisor over the death of their son at an underground mine in Western Australia’s Goldfields region
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Ride on mower death
A council worker has died after he fell off a ride-on lawn mower in a small town on Tasmania’s west coast.
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WorkSafe Victoria investigating death of worker
A WorkSafe investigation is underway after a 44-year-old man was found dead at a factory in Melbourne after the building became engulfed in flames following a chemical explosion.
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WorkSafe investigates quad bike death
WorkSafe is investigating the work-related death of a 22-year-old worker on a farming property in the Shire of Dandaragan, north of Perth, on Wednesday.
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Timber company fined $350k over worker’s death
A Victorian company has been fined $350,000 after a worker was killed in timber mill incident.
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