A beloved maintenance worker at a school in Melbourne’s southeast has been remembered as “kind” and “compassionate” after he died following a workplace accident at the school.
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The largest ever penalty for a workplace death in the Northern Territory has been handed to a Darwin equipment hire company and its managing director over the death of a worker in 2019.
WorkSafe is investigating the death of a truck driver whose body was found in a coolroom in regional Victoria
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ormer council worker Andrew Robert Paterson is serving a minimum 21-year sentence over the murder of council operations manager Rick Devlin.
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A man in his 50s has died after being crushed by a fibreglass pool at work.
Queensland man dies after being crushed by fibreglass pool at work Read More »
A roofing company has been convicted and fined almost half a million dollars in total after a man died and several others were injured in two separate workplace incidents in Sydney three years ago.
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When Hiroshi Mizuno last saw his son, the teenager’s eyes were filled with hope as he waved cheerfully before boarding a plane to Australia.
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An Adelaide asbestos removal company has been fined $150,000 after a worker fell to his death.
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EnergyAustralia has been fined $1.5 million after a veteran Yallourn power station employee suffered fatal burns in an electrical explosion.
EnergyAustralia fined $1.5 million after Yallourn power plant worker’s death Read More »
WorkSafe has charged two companies with multiple health and safety breaches following the death of an apprentice at West Melbourne.
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Fourteen of those companies were hit with six-figure penalties for breaching the Occupational Health and Safety Act, with the total of all fines imposed by the courts $5,588,750.
More than 120 employers fined for safety breaches in 2022 Read More »
The star’s daughter wrote online that it ‘has been the most challenging time for me and our whole family’.
Outback Opal Hunters star, dies in workplace accident Read More »
A coroner has found a tyre inflation accident that killed a man two years ago blasted fragments of his clothing from his body — some of which were later found in the ceiling insulation.
Man failed to use safety cage when killed by exploding tyre Read More »
A boilermaker has been remembered as a “gentle and loving” person, after he was killed at work near Ararat.
Family mourns their loss just days before Christmas Read More »
The Supreme Court of South Australia has recently upheld a decision of a lower court in deciding that waste management company, Cleanaway, failed to take reasonably practicable measures to materially reduce the risk of an accident on the South Eastern Freeway in Adelaide back in 2014 which killed two people and seriously injured two others.
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