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Farm worker injury
Case notes on injuries to people working on farms and rural properties.
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Picture hiddenFarm worker injuryWill 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.
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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…
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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 hiddenFarm worker injuryHorse breaker needed a bigger unit: inappropriate co-worker costs stud $1.4 mil
Sean McCormick had registered his concern that the assistant with whom he had been paired in his contracted role as a horse breaker on a thoroughbred stud near Picton NSW was of “small stature”.
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Party hosts liable for lapse in precautions amid unlimited alcohol supply
A party guest who was set alight with petrol while camping out at his host’s Darling Downs grain farm has won substantial damages for the burns he sustained from a prank intended to get him to re-join the celebration.
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Picture hiddenFarm worker injuryJudge lashed for poor job on race course worker’s repetitive strain injury reasons
What happens if after years of preparation for a trial - a judge fails to give reasonable consideration to a party’s evidence and then provides hopeless reasons for the decision he made?
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Picture hiddenFarm worker injuryInadequate training a whole bunch of trouble for Qld banana empire
A Far North Queensland farm worker has won a substantial payout for being injured on the job by a falling banana tree as a result of inadequate training.
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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