Australia - Company receives undertaking & $125,000 fine over separate incidents
A rail company will make mandatory improvements to workplace safety, above the minimum legal requirements, following a court-enforceable undertaking. It follows serious injuries to a worker's finger. More. The same company has been fined nearly $125,000 over a separate incident, where a worker suffered burns to 20% of his body. More.
NSW - Supermarket chain to pay $400,000+ after truck driver injures back
A supermarket company has been ordered to pay a contract truck driver more than $416,000 in damages after he injured his back while unloading goods at a loading dock. More.
NSW - Tunnel death leads to $840K fine for three companies
Three companies have been fined a total of more than $840,000 after a rock fall killed a worker in the Sydney cross city tunnel project. The companies were constructing a ventilation tunnel when the roof collapsed. More.
NSW - $300,000 fine over worker's death
A construction company has been fined $300,000 after a tipper truck driver was crushed between a truck and a concrete placer-spreader machine. Safety procedures were deemed to be deficient. More.
SA - $60,000 fines over trench collapse
Two companies have been fined a total of $60,000 after a trench collapse left a worker with serious brain injuries. More.
SA - Sawmill fined over worker injury
A Mt Gambier sawmilling company has been convicted and fined over an incident that left a worker with a potentially fatal head injury. More.
SA - Crush injury leads to $20K fine
An employer has been fined more than $20,000 after a worker's arm was crushed in a pasta making machine. Risk assessments had not been done and there were no safe work methods. More.
SA - Owner and director fined over concrete pour
An unsafe concrete pour has led to a building owner and director each being fined $44,000. Concrete and woodwork fell 4 m, endangering three workers and injuring one. More.
SA - Builder fined over asbestos contamination
A construction company has been convicted and fined over inadequate and illegal asbestos removal from a hospital. More.
SA - Employer fined over crush injury
A manufacturer has been convicted and fined $24,000 for failing to provide and maintain plant in a safe condition. Lack of training was deemed to be the major cause of the injury. It is the company's second offence. More.
VIC - Worker's death leads to conviction and $300,000 fine
A roller door manufacturer has been convicted and fined $300,000 after a worker was hit and killed by a steel drum that fell from a crane. More.
VIC - Company convicted over poor explosives management
A drilling company has been convicted and fined after its use of explosives resulted in a worker being hit with rock. WorkSafe identified a number of safety failings that could have led to a fatality. More.
VIC - Labour hire worker's fingers amputated; host employer fined $45,000
A meat processing company has been convicted and fined $45,000 after a labour hire worker had three fingers amputated. His fingers contacted a rotating shaft or paddle of a meat-mixing machine. They were not guarded. More.
WA - Company fined for giving false information
A South Australian-based company has been fined $12,000 for giving false information to an inspector. The company falsified training documents for a trolley collector who was killed in a car park. More.
NZ - $170K costs to company after confined space death
A company has been fined $45,000 and ordered to pay $125,000 in reparations after the death of a plant manager in a confined space. The man, who was using sand as a work platform inside the sand bin, became engulfed in the sand. More.
