WORKSAFE Victoria has released information about the most common injuries and hazards for young workers in the manufacturing industry.
THE AMPUTATION of a farm manager’s hand has seen Southwest Pastoral fined more than $18,000.
WORKSAFE Victoria has released updated information and warnings regarding the workplace amputation on 19 August 2008.
A LABOUR hire company has been fined $27,500 after worker’s fingers were crushed in an unguarded machine.
AMCOR Packaging has been fined $25,000 plus costs of nearly $6500 for an incident in which a worker’s hand was crushed and burned after being caught in a machine.
WORKPLACE Safety Authorities across Australia have launched a safety campaign targeted at unguarded machines in the manufacturing sector.
ADELAIDE Industrial Labour Service was fined $9000 over injuries sustained by an 18-year-old employee when his hands were trapped in a pipe-bending machine.
Workplace safety authorities across Australia have launched a national safety campaign in a bid to improve machine guarding in the manufacturing industry.
ADELAIDE engineering firm Cooper Standard Automotive was fined $13,500 over an incident in which a worker lost a section of finger.
A 35-year-old woman was crushed when a bundled pack of timber weighing about two tonnes fell on her at the Carter Holt Harvey mill at Morwell.