A SOUTH Australian mining company has been fined $65,000 following the death of a worker at the Port Pirie smelter in 2004.
SAFEWORK SA is warning employers to follow guidelines and laws to safely remove asbestos after a company was penalised for breaching workplace safety regulations.
ALCAN could be fined up to $1.1m, after pleading guilty to two workplace health and safety charges in relation to the death of one of its workers in 2007.
FOSTER’S has been fined $1.125m following a guilty plea over the death of a worker at its Abbotsford brewery in 2006.
TWO staff members from a quarry located at far north Queensland have pleaded guilty to breaches of the Mining and Quarrying Safety and Health Act 1999 over a 2006 death of another worker.
PENRICE Soda has been fined a total of $47,000 for an ammonia leak and a pressure vessel explosion in 2005.
A TRUCK driver was lucky to escape with his life after a 2005 crane collapse at a Point Augusta railyard.
ADELAIDE engineering firm Cooper Standard Automotive was fined $13,500 over an incident in which a worker lost a section of finger.
A Mildura food company has pleaded guilty in a Victoria County Court to workplace safety offences after an employee died in a forklift accident.
THE Industrial Court of NSW has convicted a coal mining company and fined it $175,000, highlighting the importance of establishing safe work procedures for non-routine tasks and when equipment fails.