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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Fines & Breaches
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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$1.3 million fine for workplace manslaughter
A stonemasonry business has become the first company convicted under Victoria’s workplace manslaughter laws after causing the death of a worker who was fatally crushed at a Somerton factory.
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Barwon South West region ‘significantly over-represented’ in occupational health and safety cases
Businesses in Geelong caught breaching occupational health and safety (OHS) guidelines are being hit with some of the highest fines in the state.
Executive jailed and ground-breaking WHS legal developments
On 23 January 2024 the National Operations Manager of a logistics business was sentenced to three years jail, ordered to pay $123,000 in legal costs and issued with an order prohibiting him from managing transport activities for 12 months upon his release from jail.
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Work Health and Safety: increased activity means you need to be proactive
Are you complying with your Work Health and Safety duties?
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Huge fine after employee’s hand was partially degloved
A company operating in Breakwater has copped a massive fine after an employee’s finger was partially degloved.
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State Government ordered to pay compensation for Covid-19 vaccine injury
A vaccine-injured South Australian dad and public servant had a groundbreaking legal win against the government.
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