Queensland farm worker successfully sues employer for $500,000 after he was injured by bananas
A banana farm worker in Queensland has successfully sued his employer for half a million dollars after he was injured by falling bananas.
Farming
What if a limited use registered farm vehicle is in an accident?
The Queensland Dairyfarmers’ Organisation (QDO) board asked us to investigate what happens when an unroadworthy registered motorbike/tractor is in an accident.
NT cattle station contractor ordered to pay compensation to worker injured in barrel explosion
A Northern Territory cattle mustering contractor has been ordered to pay $20,000 in compensation to a young ringer who suffered severe burns in an AVGAS explosion on the remote Montejinni Station, 320 kilometres south-west of Katherine.
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.
Vic farm worker dies in hay bale fall
A farm worker in eastern Victoria has died after six large hay bales fell on him.
Mustering sheep safely with drones
Victorian farmers Tom and Bill Alston use drones to take some of the stress and injury risk out of mustering sheep and cattle on their Beeac property in the state’s south-west.
Patient rushed to hospital following tractor accident
A person was rushed to hospital by helicopter after a tractor accident at a property in the Lockyer Valley.
Campaign targets ‘bulletproof’ farm safety attitudes
The campaign’s key message – “It’s never you, until it is” – aims to challenge a common mindset among farmers and agriculture workers that a serious incident won’t happen to them.
Farmer killed in tractor rollover
A well known Tablelands farming family is in mourning after a farmer was killed when his tractor rolled on him on a rural Peeramon property.
Tributes flow for man killed in a workplace accident
A father-of-two from the Upper Hunter has been remembered as a talented polo player and a “complete gentlemen” after a fatal workplace accident. He was a superior sportsman and a “true gentleman”.
Worker killed in tractor accident at Pick Your Own Strawberry Farm
A man has been killed in a workplace accident at a strawberry farm in Bullsbrook, north-east of Perth.
Farmer has arm torn off and drives himself to get help
A “one-in-million” farming accident last week resulted in the arm of an experienced worker being completely severed after it was caught in a hay baler.
Man dead, woman flown to Orange Hospital after workplace accident
A man is dead and an injured woman has been flown to Orange Hospital after a workplace incident on a property in Cathundral, west of Dubbo.
Urgent think tank to improve farm safety
The WA State government is planning an urgent Farm Safety Summit to improve workplace safety in the agriculture sector.
Farmer dies in ATV rollover
A farmer has died after he was thrown from an ATV in central Victoria.
