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Case notes on injuries at work: unsafe systems of work, falls, machinery, manual handling and workers’ compensation.
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Picture hiddenConstruction accidentWorker’s lapse maims offsider; how can victim sue?
How can an injured worker recover injury compensation damages for an on-the-job accident when an employer has put in place a safe system of work only to have a co-worker fail to follow the system as a result of a momentary lapse.
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Picture hiddenReasonable management actionWithout warning: emotional worker sues for demotion hurt
When can the circumstances of performance counselling lead to a successful injury compensation claim if the worker sues?
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Picture hiddenConstruction accidentWill never work again: court awards $2.8 mil for freak accident
Does the occurrence of a freak accident imply that any resulting injury was unforeseeable? In March 2019 Kari Sivonen was helping clear a development site at Hancocks Creek Road, Wandandian on the NSW South Coast.
- Factory accident
Judge pans Dalby plant operator’s denial of hazard creation liability
A worker who fell from a ladder while descending from the top of a 14.5-m high silo to land on a concrete slab below has won substantial damages from a refinery plant that denied liability for its role in the calamity.
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Picture hiddenFirst respondersEmployer directly liable for supervisor’s gut punch to junior staffer
A court has ruled Queensland Corrective Services vicariously liable for injury compensation from a supervisor's gut punch to a Woodford Correctional Officer because it was a bad method of staff management.
- Farm worker injury
Brain injured mechanic awarded $1 mil for farm bike accident
A 60-yr-old motor mechanic who was thrown over the handlebars of a motorcycle he had just serviced and was test riding on a dirt road, has been awarded more than $1 million for a serious brain injury that resulted from the farm…
- Construction accident
Safety measures messages mixed: thumb injury costs firm $727k
The idiosyncrasies of the concrete industry have been laid bare in the case of a truck driver who sustained an on-the-job thumb injury when manipulating defective equipment in the course of delivering wet product to a…
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Picture hiddenFirst respondersAmbulance trolley toppled by hole, $300k for public park fall
Compensation claims for injuries resulting from a public park fall because of uneven ground usually go nowhere.
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Picture hiddenFarm worker injuryTragic farm worker accident: employer’s fault or that of auger supplier?
In what circumstances can the supplier of machinery that an employer allows to be used in an unsafe manner be made to bear responsibility for the injuries it causes to a worker?
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Picture hiddenMining injuryMiner triumphs over suspicion: court awards $1.95 mil for CRPS injury
An underground miner who presented with what one specialist described as the most obviously fake condition he had seen in his 40 years of medical practice has won nearly $2 million in damages for the accident it resulted from.
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Picture hiddenLogistics worker injuryHandling unsafe weights at rapid pace: Aldi pays $160k for disc injury
A supermarket stocker has recovered substantial damages for injuries sustained as a result of being required to perform her role of repetitious handling unsafe weights at a rapid pace.
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Picture hiddenFirst respondersWCQ whipped on compliance ask for NOCD particulars of negligence
Are "high level" allegations - without particulars of the components of alleged negligence and causation pertaining to an injury - sufficient to meet the requirements of a compliant workplace injury Notice of Claim for Damages?
Case notes explain decisions in other people’s cases. They are general information, not legal advice, and every claim turns on its own facts.
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