PART of a floor of a building under construction in Canberra collapsed during a concrete pour on 27 October 2008, sending equipment and scaffolding crashing downwards.
A WORKER is recovering in hospital with a fractured right leg after being rescued from his 150t crane.
ANGLO Coal has been fined $200,000 after a contractor suffered an electrical shock at its Dartbrook mine in 2005.
THE QUEENSLAND Government will implement recommendations made by an independent reference group to help improve the safety of swing stage scaffolding.
A WORKER has died at the Leigh Creek mine after falling from a bulldozer into the mine, prompting the facility to halt production and criticism from the CFMEU.
NEARLY 700 mining industry personnel have applied to attend the 20th annual Queensland Mining Industry Health and Safety conference, forcing the event to change venue.
CONSTRUCTION workers who walked off a Victorian building site over an asbestos scare will return to work.
WORKERS have returned to the Bluewaters power station in Collie after 300 contractors refused to work onsite following concerns of lead-based paint on temporary equipment.
THE Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) has warned Australia’s coal mining industry against complacency when dealing with work safety.
WORKSAFE Victoria is investigating an incident in which an official from the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) is said to have dumped asbestos on a table in front of two managers at a construction site.