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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Man dies after being crushed by truck at work site
A man has died after reportedly being crushed by a truck at a work site at Victoria Point.
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Charges over water tank fatality and injury
WorkSafe has charged a Swan Hill water tank manufacturer after a man was killed and another seriously injured in separate unloading incidents.
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RACV fined $475,000 after father killed during 96-hour roadside assist shift
John Halls had seven hours left of a 96-hour shift left and had just driven two people home safely after their car broke down when he crashed into a tree at 100km/h.
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Tow truck operator gets prison sentence for WHS incident
A vehicle on board a tow truck rolled off and killed a 67-year-old man who was standing at its rear.
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