A 71-year-old worker suffers horrific injuries
Australians have been warned about the risks of using angle grinders after a worker suffered horrific upper body injuries.
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Electrical
Demolition company fined $140,000 after excavator hits powerlines
An Adelaide demolition company has been convicted and fined more than $140,000 after its excavator brought down a 415 voltage overhead powerline, exposing the operator to risk of death or serious injury.
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Electrocuted orchard worker: WorkSafe and coroner at odds about accident
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.
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Queensland man electrocuted in workplace incident near Mackay
The man is understood to have died while digging a trench at a private property.
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Transport company fined $75,000 after electric shock
A transport company has been convicted and fined $75,000 after a worker suffered an electric shock when a mobile crane struck overhead power lines at a Dromana construction site.
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EnergyAustralia fined $1.5 million after Yallourn power plant worker’s death
EnergyAustralia has been fined $1.5 million after a veteran Yallourn power station employee suffered fatal burns in an electrical explosion.
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Feedlot company to face court after farmhand electrocuted at Gerang Gerung property
The operator of a cattle feedlot in the Wimmera has been charged after a farmhand was electrocuted.
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Worker seriously injured at Mall
Just after 11.30am this morning (Saturday, 10 September) emergency services were called to a report which initially came from an off-duty police officer of a workplace accident at Westfield Warringah Mall, Brookvale. A worker using a power tool had cut through an electrical supply line near the Rebel sport store, which is in the area near Coles.
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Company director convicted for horror industrial accident
A fabrication company in liquidation has been fined $28,000 for a horror industrial accident in 2018, which left a worker with “charred feet” requiring amputation.
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Hungry Jacks worker receives electric shock
A young Hungry Jacks worker has been taken to hospital after receiving an electric shock while on the job.
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Man suffers electrical burns in horror accident
Two men have suffered serious electric shocks after a concrete pump struck an overhead powerline on a worksite in Surfers Paradise.
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Man dies at Taco Bill restaurant
A tradie who died while working on renovations at a popular Taco Bill restaurant in Melbourne’s southeast is being remembered as a man “full of life and love”.
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Sugar giant charged with industrial manslaughter
Charges have been laid against one of the country’s biggest sugar millers after a worker was electrocuted on the job in Far North Queensland two years ago.
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Yeppoon pineapple farm worker electrocuted
A pineapple farm where a worker was killed last week had previously been investigated over a farmhand falling off a makeshift roofing platform made from a forklift and a fruit bin.
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Ultra Refrigeration fined after apprentice injured
A company has been fined $150,000 after one of its apprentice workers suffered serious injury from an arc flash explosion at a Sydney KFC in 2017.
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