No-one will know what led orchard worker and grandfather Falaniko Ah Lin to drive a cherry picker into a 33,000 volt overhead power line.
Electrocuted orchard worker: WorkSafe and coroner at odds about accident Read More »
The death of a 70-year-old worker on his second shift in January 2022 has led to hundreds of thousands of fines against two companies for their work health and safety negligence.
Two companies fined $415,000 after fatal workplace accident Read More »
The poets and philosophers are right: life is fragile, so take care of yourself. This particularly applies to pilots who hold the lives of others literally in their hands.
Without warning – pilot incapacitation Read More »
A labour hire company has been convicted and fined a total of $415,000 after a fruit picker died following a fall from a moving trailer during his second shift with the company.
Labour hire company fined $415,000 after worker’s death Read More »
Victorian employers faced serious legal and financial consequences for putting workers at risk last year, with WorkSafe completing 119 successful health and safety prosecutions and enforceable undertakings.
Employers cop $13.3 million for safety breaches in 2024 Read More »
Melbourne School And Travel Company Fined 300k Over Students Death
Total fines of $290,000 have been charged against a travel company and a school after a 16-year-old boy suffered fatal diabetes complications during a school trip to Vietnam in 2019.
Melbourne school and travel company fined $300k over student’s death Read More »
A worker has been convicted and placed on a six month good behaviour bond following the death of a colleague who was struck by a forklift load at a warehouse near Geelong.
Worker convicted after forklift death Read More »
A child has died in hospital after being crushed by a falling parking meter stored in a museum courtyard.
Boy dies after being crushed by falling parking meter Read More »
A repair company has been convicted and fined $350,000 after a 59-year-old man was crushed by a falling 1.1 tonne gate in Dandenong South.
Gate repairer fined $350K over truckie’s death Read More »
A Woorinen South fruit grower has been convicted and fined $750,000 after a fruit picker died following a fall from a moving trailer.
Fruit grower fined $750,000 after picker’s fall Read More »
A southern Adelaide electrical company has been fined $300,000 after a worker died when he became trapped in a pit.
Service pit death brings $300,000 fine Read More »
A Bassendean workshop fatality has cost an engineering firm more than half a million dollars due to inadequate safety checks resulting in a boom collapsing on a worker.
Engineering company fined $567K over workshop fatality Read More »
Jess Patience, 36, killed in Golden Plains wind turbine tragedy in Victoria
The worker who never returned home from work on Monday has been identified. 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
