SAFETY inspectors are currently investigating Griffin Coal’s Ewington coal mine, after an explosion severely burned a worker.
BRADKEN Resources has been convicted and fined $28,900 after a worker sustained a broken leg and serious burns after being crushed by 800kg of metal.
A YOUNG employee has been burned after an unsecured fryer slipped off the bench he was cleaning, splashing him with hot oil.
ACCIDENTAL Health and Safety will release a modular first aid system said to be ready to use in case of emergency.
TWO separate industrial explosions in Brisbane on within 24 hours have seen two men hospitalised from burns.
ERGON Energy will investigate an electrical shock incident involving one of its workers at Bollon.
MORANBAH company CQE Hire, BMA Coal and an employee of the companies were fined $83,000 after an incident at a Queensland mine 18 months ago.
A Harvard University study has found workers constantly exposed to diesel exhaust have a 50% high chance of dying from heart disease.
PERFORMANCE Wheel Nominees was convicted and fined more then $AUD 25000 over three counts of breaching workplace safety laws.
A teenager has been badly burnt in a factory explosion at Gloucester, north of Newcastle, in the New South Wales Hunter region.