Fines & Breaches

Introduction A man sustained severe injuries in a workplace accident at a factory in Melbourne’s west after being dragged into an unguarded machine. The incident highlights the critical importance of workplace safety and the consequences of neglecting proper safety measures. Safety Violations and Consequences Following the accident, WorkSafe Victoria conducted an investigation and found that […]

Robinson’s Unloading Pty Ltd was sentenced in the Heidelberg Magistrates’ Court on Friday 2 August after pleading guilty to a single charge of failing to provide and maintain a system of work that was safe and without risks to health. The company was, without conviction, placed on a 12-month Good Behaviour Bond and ordered to

This workplace safety failure could have been “so easily avoided” resulted in a young worker receiving significant injuries. When Metal Manufactures Pty Ltd moved its TLE Electrical outlet to a different premises in Belconnen over late 2021 and early 2022, employees set up three-metre tall racking and placed drums of cables on it weighing several

An electrical manufacturing company and one of its Canberra site managers have been fined more than $400,000 after a worker was crushed by hundreds of kilograms of cable.

A worker left paralysed after falling headfirst into a concrete water tank needed a colleague to hold his head above water while he was rescued, a court has been told.

Queensland’s biggest locally-owned smallgoods company, based in Ormeau, has been fined $70,000 by a Logan court after a teen employee seriously injured his hand in a sausage-making machine.

A Greek takeaway restaurant has been fined $75,000 after a 22-year-old worker’s ponytail was caught in an unguarded rotisserie machine at a store in Melbourne’s northeast.