Construction supplies company fined $300k
An Australian construction supplies company has been fined $300,000 over a workplace accident that left an employee with severe head and torso injuries.
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Fines & Breaches
Café owner fined over $93,000 fraud
A former cook at a Wheelers Hill aged care centre has been convicted and fined $10,000 after buying and running his own café while receiving workers compensation payments.
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A1 Engineering fined after worker crushed to death at old cheese factory
Victorian regional business A1 Engineering has been convicted and fined $250,000 in the County Court after one of its workers was killed while decommissioning an old cheese factory in Leitchville in the state’s north.
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Kitchen Installer Fined $50K Over Worker’s Load Injury
Trendgosa Pty Ltd, was sentenced in the Heidelberg Magistrates’ Court last Wednesday after pleading guilty to a charge of failing to provide or maintain systems of work that were, so far as reasonably practicable, safe and without risks to health.
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Pool and Department of Education charged after drowning
WorkSafe has charged a Port Fairy pool operator and the Department of Education and Training after an eight-year-old boy drowned while on a school excursion.
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Goulburn Valley Water fined after worker loses finger
One of Victoria’s major water corporations has been fined after an employee partially lost a finger following a workplace accident.
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Bakery charged with workplace manslaughter
WorkSafe has charged garlic bread manufacturer Centenary Bakehouse with multiple health and safety breaches after a worker fell to their death in August 2021.
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Company fined after manager crushed to death
A Victorian company has been fined $225,000 after a manager was fatally crushed inside a shipping container.
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Ricardo Fuentes reveals extent of injuries in Craigieburn workplace incident
More than three years after almost dying on a Craigieburn worksite and suffering terrible injuries, a Melbourne tradie still can’t function the way he used to. Read his story.
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Gate repair company charged after fatal crush
WorkSafe has charged a gate manufacturing and repair business after the death of another company’s worker in April 2022.
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Company director charged over workplace bullying
WorkSafe has charged a former director of a glass supplier and installer after two workers were allegedly bullied.
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Restaurant fined over hot oil burns
The operator of The Cheeky Squire restaurant in Frankston has been convicted and fined $35,000 after two workers were injured in a hot oil spill.
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Fraudster to repay $144,000 after false work injury claim
A truck driver who twice called an ambulance as he drove home from a V8 Supercars event has been convicted for falsely claiming his back injury happened the next day at work.
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Fine increased by Court of Appeal
A Victorian mechanics business that serviced a petrol tanker days before it crashed and killed three people in the state’s north east in 2014 has had its fine increased after an appeal.
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Fines against recalcitrant dim sim maker tripled on appeal
A Richmond food manufacturer has seen its fines for failing to keep its workers safe triple to $105,000 after the initial sentence was appealed in the County Court.
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