WorkSafe Victoria has charged the Department of Health and Human Services, three companies and an individual following a series of incidents against a number of employees by a client at a residential care facility in the state’s east.
New Zealand’s workplace safety regulator has accepted an enforceable undertaking from a glass supply and glazing company following an incident in January 2017 when a worker’s leg was crushed in machinery.
A Sydney-based company and its director have been fined after a 51 year-old worker’s hand was crushed while cleaning machinery.
A supermarket and a Victorian based transport and warehouse company will face court later this month over the death of a 47 year old itinerant man, who was run over after falling asleep in the loading dock area at Hibiscus Shopping Centre in Leanyer.
A western Sydney businessman has been fined $60,000 after a worker died after falling from a ladder while installing security cameras in June 2016.
WorkSafe New Zealand accepted enforceable undertakings from two companies following an incident at Peaks Pump Station in North Otago in September 2016.
A Villawood-based stonework importing company has been fined $200,000 after a truck driver was struck by stone slabs and left with permanent injuries.
A NSW Central Coast company has been fined $45,000 after two young workers were overcome by fumes.
An indoor shooting range in Brisbane has been fined $77,000 after a worker suffered lead poisoning from exposure to ammunition.
A poultry farm in Victoria has been fined $230,000 after a man was killed in a workplace incident more than two years ago.
A government agency has been charged with breaching federal work health and safety laws after two army recruits suffered severe electric shocks while doing a training exercise in Victoria.
WorkSafe ACT has issued almost 250 improvement and prohibition notices, 23 infringement notices totalling over $80,000, enforceable undertakings of more than $700,000 during 3,854 workplace visits across Canberra in the past year.
An Australian fishing company has avoided court after the NT safety regulator accepted enforceable undertaking following the death of a deckhand in 2013.
A transport company in Darling Downs has been fined $60,000 in the Toowoomba Magistrates Court following a depot disaster.
WorkSafe ACT has issued a Prohibition and two Improvement Notices following an excavator incident on a Civic construction site on Thursday morning.
NT WorkSafe has laid charges against a Queensland based labour contracting hire company and one of its directors in relation to the death of a Fijian national who had travelled to Australia on a working visa.
A stone supplier has been fined $50,000 without conviction following an incident where a 182kg stone benchtop fell on a worker’s foot, resulting in the loss of his three toes.
A WA mining company has been fined $35,000 following a workplace incident at the company’s Higginsville mine more than three years ago.
A cold storage food distributor has been fined $45,000 plus $2900 in costs following an incident where a contract worker suffered serious ammonia gas burns.
Wellington – A small farming company was sentenced last week following a 2016 incident in which a young boy had a narrow escape after he fell from a quad bike and was run over by the equipment which was being towed behind it.
A plumbing company has become the second business to be convicted and fined over an incident in which an apprentice suffered serious burns when he made contact with powerlines.
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