WORKSAFE WA says it is investigating the death of a 50-year-old roof plumber in south Perth on 26 August 2009.
27/08/2009
A SOUTH Australian mining company has been fined $65,000 following the death of a worker at the Port Pirie smelter in 2004.
09/12/2008
FOSTER’S has been fined $1.125m following a guilty plea over the death of a worker at its Abbotsford brewery in 2006.
05/08/2008
FOSTERS has pleaded guilty to two workplace safety charges arising from the crushing death of an employee at its Abbotsford plant in 2006.
25/07/2008
WORKPLACE safety agency Comcare is prosecuting construction company John Holland in the Brisbane Federal Court over a 2008 death of a worker.
05/02/2009
COMCARE says it is investigating the death of a soldier and the injury of another in a ‘live-fire’ exercise at the Cultana Military Base in South Australia.
22/10/2009
QUEENSLAND’s Department of Justice and Attorney-General has laid charges against an insulation installing company after the death of a teenage worker.
29/06/2010
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.
18/01/2008
SAFEWORK SA says it is investigating the death of a 58 year old worker who was killed by a bee.
02/04/2009
QUEENSLAND Workplace Health and Safety personnel are investigating an accident in which a sand quarry worker was killed.
15/08/2008
A ROOFING contractor has died after falling from the top of a 16-storey building in Surfers Paradise, Queensland.
07/08/2008
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.
29/08/2008
A CAIRNS-based training provider was fined $13,000 after a construction worker he was assessing died in September 2006.
06/11/2008
A Mildura food company has pleaded guilty in a Victoria County Court to workplace safety offences after an employee died in a forklift accident.
20/02/2008
WORKSAFE Western Australia is investigating the death of a 37-year-old man at a factory in the Wheatbelt town of Moora yesterday afternoon.
31/01/2008
A 45-year-old man was crushed and killed by sheets of glass on 9 September 2009 at West Heidelberg.
11/09/2009
INJURY Free Day will be taking place on 24 October 2008 to promote workplace safety and reduce preventable injuries in the workplace.
24/09/2008
THE AUSTRALIAN Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) has blasted what it says is Australia’s poor record on workplace death and injury, pushing for a stricter duty of care to be imposed on employers.
21/07/2008
A 46-year-old truck driver has died after falling from a trailer in Victoria, making up the state’s third work related fatality in a week.
11/04/2008
BOTH a company and the person in charge of a workplace were convicted after a 2003 electrocution death of an employee.
02/07/2008