Company fined $30,000 for amputated thumb
A national steel supply and fabrication company has been fined $30,000 after a worker’s thumb was caught in a metal bar bending machine.
View ArticleWorkSafe to target falling object dangers
The risks of falling objects at building sites will be the focus of WorkSafe inspectors when they visit Victorian construction sites in the coming weeks.
View ArticleFarm fined $80,000 following forklift incident
A Gippsland vegetable farm has been convicted and fined $80,000 after a contractor was struck by a forklift.
View ArticleHandyman ordered to pay up for fraud
A Frankston handyman has been ordered to pay back more than $150,000 and handed a one year suspended jail sentence for defrauding Victoria’s workers compensation scheme.
View ArticleFood retailer fined over return-to-work offences
A company selling nuts, dried fruits and candies in shopping centres has been convicted and fined a total of $60,000 for seven return-to-work offences relating to an injured worker.
View ArticleMan electrocuted at Hughesdale
A man has died after being electrocuted while working from an elevated platform in Hughesdale today.
View ArticleWork to remove chemical stockpiles begins
A WorkSafe-led taskforce including Environment Protection Authority Victoria (EPA) and fire services has begun the complex task of removing chemicals stockpiled at eight sites in Epping and...
View ArticleMore care needed to prevent workplace deaths
WorkSafe is urging employers to make sure they do everything they can to protect their workers in 2019 after 23 people died as a result of workplace incidents last year.
View ArticlePort operator fined over safety threats
A port operator has been convicted and fined $475,000 after threatening workers who raised safety concerns.
View ArticleMan dies after fall from height
A man in his late 60s has died after he fell about six metres at a business in Mordialloc this afternoon.
View ArticleAppeal against gaol term dropped
A 72-year-old woman, who was gaoled after an employee died when the forklift she was operating dropped a scrap metal bin on him, has dropped her appeal against her six-month sentence.
View ArticleTruck driver dies collecting rubbish skip
A truck driver died yesterday after being struck by his own truck while collecting a hire rubbish skip bin at a workplace in Kew.
View ArticleYoung worker electrocuted on roof
A young worker has died in an incident at a home in Melbourne’s outer-west yesterday evening.
View ArticleUpdate on plans to remove chemical stockpiles at Epping and Campbellfield
A multi-agency taskforce led by WorkSafe is continuing detailed planning and preliminary work for the removal of chemicals stockpiled at eight sites in Epping and Campbellfield.
View ArticleWorker dies in hospital after scissor lift fall
A 63-year-old man has died from the injuries he sustained in an incident involving a scissor lift at a Derrimut warehouse on December 22.
View ArticleHot days spark safety warning
WorkSafe is urging employers in the north of the state to plan ahead to protect workers in this week’s prolonged extreme heat.
View ArticleScrap yard owner sentenced to gaol over worker’s death
A scrap yard owner has been sentenced to six months in gaol after an employee died when the forklift she was operating dropped an industrial bin on him at Foster, in South Gippsland, in 2017.
View ArticleCompany charged over trench collapse deaths
A civil construction company has been charged by WorkSafe Victoria following the death of two workers after a trench collapsed in Ballarat in March 2018.
View ArticleAgencies take control of chemical removal
WorkSafe, Environment Protection Authority Victoria (EPA) and other government agencies will take action to remove stored chemicals discovered at a number of sites in Epping and Campbellfield.
View ArticleChild dies in farm incident
A two-year-old boy has died following an incident involving a tractor at a farm at Naringal in the state’s south-west this morning.
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