Director charged after driving ute with teen in toolbox
WorkSafe has charged a company director for driving a ute in Victoria’s high country with a teenage apprentice in a toolbox
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Fines & Breaches
Company fronts court after worker suffers fatal injuries
A worker fractured his skull, lost about two litres of blood, went into cardiac arrest and died during a horrific workplace accident in Dandenong South.
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$40,000 fine after worker’s arm caught in shredder
A scrap metal recycler in Tottenham has been fined $40,000 after a contractor’s arm was caught in a machine which had the guarding removed.
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Company Fined $40,000 After Worker Trapped Under Gate
Build Tech Hoardings Pty Ltd was sentenced in the Moorabbin Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday 3 April after pleading guilty to a single charge of failing to ensure persons other than employees were not exposed to health and safety risks.
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Company fined $150k for Crestmead exploding tyre accident
A construction company has been fined $150,000 after a tyre exploded on site in Logan, badly injuring a worker.
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‘No evidence’ worker killed in horror crush accident given safety training
A Youngtown man killed in a horrific waste compactor accident nearly a decade ago was not given safety guidelines or instructions on critical safety aspects of his job, a coroner has found.
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Man loses legs in ‘horrific’ workplace accident
The truck driver also suffered a traumatic brain injury when he was crushed by 12m-long steel beams.
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Pot scrubber fails in repetitive injury claim in Mackay District Court
This case serves as an important reminder that employers should appropriately address identified risks to ensure they are not breaching their duty of care to employees. However, a worker’s claim does not necessarily succeed just because they can demonstrate a breach of duty or care by an employer.
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Timber business faces court after workplace accident
A Port of Brisbane timber company has been fined tens of thousands of dollars after a “devastating” workplace accident that put an employee in hospital for 40 days.
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Former Jungle Surfing Canopy Tours boss Sheena Mary Walshaw on trial over zip line accident
The widow of a man who plunged to his death in a zip line accident at Cape Tribulation four years ago listened as a witness gave evidence a ‘grandstand’ zip line was put together without recommended equipment.
‘Shameful’: Qantas fined $250k for standing down worker
Qantas has been fined $250,000 after it was found guilty of breaching workplace health and safety laws and discriminatory conduct in standing down a worker for raising COVID-19 concerns.
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Spate Of Serious Injuries Leads To $545,000 Fine
The incidents include two people suffering serious burns when a worker tried to extinguish a fire with liquid that turned out to be unlabelled methylated spirits, a worker suffering a head wound and concussion after part of a machine fell on his head, and machinery lacerating a worker’s finger.
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Sign company and bully boss fined $40,000
A company director and his Oakleigh South signage firm have been convicted and fined a combined $40,000 over the long-term bullying of a sub-contractor.
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Spray booth collapse leads to heavy fine
A steel fabrication business and a director have been fined a total of $92,500 in the Townsville Magistrate court for a workplace incident involving a trailer collapsing while a worker was prepping it in an onsite spray-painting booth.
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Bunnings worker gets $1.25 million payout
Merchandiser Sarah Jane severely injured her back while working at Bunnings and says she is still suffering today.
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