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Company fined 275,000 following electrocution of a worker

A company has been fined $275,000 for failure to ensure that people other than its employees were not exposed to risks to their health or safety and welfare at their workplace. At the time of the incident a crane crew... Read More

Company fined $100,000 after a worker received lacerations and serious injuries to his arm

A worker bent down under the head of the conveyor, which had stopped to retrieve a parcel of meat which had fallen onto a steel rack. Suddenly the conveyor started and the worker’s right arm was dragged into a shear... Read More

Builder, Subby and Supervisor fined after a trainee was pinned by a EWP causing his death

Builder fined $180,000, Subby fined $180,000 and Supervisor fined $18,000 after a trainee was pinned by a elevated work platform causing his death. The killed worker was tightening bolts over the joints of the metal roof purlins. The task was... Read More

Supplier of Plant fined $60,000 following the death of an employee

On July 2006, a 37-year-old employee working alone commenced operating a Pallet Paint Line De-stacker (plant), almost 1 hour later the employee was found in an unconscious state trapped between a stack of 20 pallets. The employee died 3 days... Read More