Business, supervisor fined $55K after worker’s 7m rooftop fall
A roofing business and one of its supervisors have been fined a collective $55,000 after a worker was seriously injured falling through a roof onto a concrete floor.
A roofing business and one of its supervisors have been fined a collective $55,000 after a worker was seriously injured falling through a roof onto a concrete floor.
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.
A carpentry company in Langwarrin has been convicted and fined $130,000 after a 16-year-old apprentice was injured twice in one day at a Glen Waverly construction site.
A Melbourne supermarket pizza supplier has been ordered to pay a former employee more than $53,000 after she was sexually harassed by a male colleague who stared at her breasts.
A Queensland childcare worker who tripped on a Lego block and injured her ankle has been awarded almost $200,000.
A carpentry company in Langwarrin has been convicted and fined $130,000 after a 16-year-old apprentice was injured twice in one day at a Glen Waverly construction site.
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.
A Melbourne carpentry business has been fined $130,000 after an apprentice suffered a horrific head injury at work.
A stone importer has been convicted and fined $475,000 after a worker was fatally crushed at a Dingley Village warehouse in April 2020.
Authorities have warned West Australian employers to immediately report workplace incidents after a young labourer had to have seven fingers amputated.
A Victorian company that manufactures reinforced concrete products has been fined $30,000 after a worker’s hand got caught in a machine at its Kilmore workplace, resulting in serious injury.
A carnival ride operator was allegedly distracted and holding out a soft toy for patrons to grab onto as six-year-old Eugene Mahauariki slipped out of his seat and fell, a Victorian inquest has heard.
The operator of a cattle feedlot in the Wimmera has been charged after a farmhand was electrocuted.
An unroadworthy truck led to the crushing death of a garbo, with a Gippsland garbage company pleading guilty in the County Court.
A Melbourne dim sim producer, whose products can be found in most supermarkets, has copped a massive fine after “fragrantly ignoring” safety measures.