Worker in fall in stable condition
A young man has been rushed to Royal Perth Hospital after a suspected workplace accident at the soon to be revamped Karrinyup Shopping Centre.
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Injury
Man injured after becoming trapped in rock crushing machinery
A man has been taken to hospital after his leg was trapped in rock crushing machinery in Sydney’s west.
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Company fined $120,000 after truck runs over worker
Dandy Premix Concrete Pty Ltd was sentenced in the Dandenong Magistrates’ Court last Monday after being found guilty on 15 April of failing to provide a safe workplace by failing to take reasonably practicable steps to eliminate the risk of powered mobile machines colliding with pedestrians.
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Ultra Refrigeration fined after apprentice injured
A company has been fined $150,000 after one of its apprentice workers suffered serious injury from an arc flash explosion at a Sydney KFC in 2017.
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Engineering company fined after crane collapes onto building
A structural engineering company has been fined $225,000 after three workers were injured when a tower crane collapsed onto an apartment block in Wolli Creek.
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Mechanic suffers severe traumatic brain injury in workplace accident
Mark Green’s “life stopped” when an airbag exploded while he was working under a hoisted bus, leaving him with a severe traumatic brain injury and fractures to almost every bone in his face.
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Man critically injured in electrocution at Harston
A man was flown to hospital with life-threatening injuries after he was electrocuted in a work accident on a Harston property on Tuesday.
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Icon Plastics fined, convicted after Seaford worker hurt
A Seaford factory worker’s hand was crushed when he reached for a pen he dropped into a piece of heavy machinery, a court has heard.
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Charges laid after young ringer suffers burns while cutting Avgas drum
NT WorkSafe has charged a cattle mustering contractor with four breaches of the Work Health and Safety (National Uniform Legislation) Act 2011, over an incident where an 18-year-old worker was severely burnt when a 44-gallon Avgas drum exploded.
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Employer fined $5000 for not reporting workplace injury
A transport company has been fined $5000 for not reporting a serious workplace injury after an incident in which a worker was hospitalised for a week
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Worker with PTSD wins discrimination battle against ACT Government
A woman bullied so severely while working for the ACT Government that she was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has won her discrimination battle.
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Patient rushed to hospital following tractor accident
A person was rushed to hospital by helicopter after a tractor accident at a property in the Lockyer Valley.
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Gympie’s Wood Industries Pty Ltd hit with $35k workplace safety fine
A Gympie workplace health and safety accident that left a senior employee with two fractured legs has left a timber business with a big bill to pay
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Man seriously injured in Coomera workplace accident
A man has been rushed to hospital following a workplace accident on the northern Gold Coast this afternoon.
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Woolworths fined following an accident
In 2018 a supermarket worker was moving a two metre high bakery trolley which had been loaded with bread products from the bakery of the supermarket.
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