This day has been coming for some time. Still, a decision this week has sent dread around the boardrooms of Australia. In a first for Western Australia, a director of a small shed-building business has just been sentenced to serve actual jail time (not a suspended sentence) after the tragic death of a worker.
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Five charges have been laid over the death of a 30-year-old worker who was crushed and killed by an excavator bucket in 2019 — including two charges against the company director and another charge against an employee.
Multiple charges laid over death of Northern Territory worker in excavator accident Read More »
A small-business owner in Esperance has become the first person in Western Australia to be jailed for gross negligence, after the death of a young worker last year and serious injuries to another.
Esperance business owner jailed after death of worker Read More »
A man has been taken to hospital after his leg was trapped in rock crushing machinery in Sydney’s west.
Man injured after becoming trapped in rock crushing machinery Read More »
A farm worker in eastern Victoria has died after six large hay bales fell on him.
Vic farm worker dies in hay bale fall Read More »
A man has died at a business north of Adelaide this morning, police say.
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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A man has been killed in a tragic workplace accident at Ingham’s chicken factory at Burton, in Adelaide’s northern suburbs, after a truck hit the employee.
Worker killed by truck at Ingham’s chicken factory site at Burton Read More »
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.
Ultra Refrigeration fined after apprentice injured Read More »
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.
Engineering company fined after crane collapes onto building Read More »
Lockdown-fuelled demand for take-out meals has brought throngs of new delivery riders onto streets around the world, but in Australia the boom has also seen tragedy with a spate of road deaths highlighting the plight of couriers.
Deaths in Australia highlight plight of delivery riders Read More »
Building company Gran Designs WA Pty Ltd has been fined a total of $175,000 over the 2017 death of a contract worker in the South-West town of Yarloop.
Building company fined $175,000 over death of worker Read More »
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.
Mechanic suffers severe traumatic brain injury in workplace accident Read More »
A man was flown to hospital with life-threatening injuries after he was electrocuted in a work accident on a Harston property on Tuesday.
Man critically injured in electrocution at Harston Read More »
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.
Icon Plastics fined, convicted after Seaford worker hurt Read More »
