Incident records by state and territory
Workplace deaths, serious injuries and the investigations, prosecutions and inquests that follow, across Australia.
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Incidents and their outcomes, by state and territory
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RegulatorWorkSafe Tasmania
Report Overview Tasmania’s workers compensation scheme is under review after the amount paid by the state government for workers compensation claims rose from $32.7 million in the 2015 financial year to $143.4…
Federal MP Tony Pasin and a staff member were injured after an oyster barge hit a sandbar in northern Tasmania, the ABC reported on 16 July 2026. Police said one man fell…
A workplace health and safety prosecution against a northern Tasmanian gin distillery has been dismissed, with a magistrate finding it was not proven beyond reasonable doubt that the employer breached its duty…
A workplace health and safety prosecution against a northern Tasmanian gin distillery has been dismissed, after a magistrate found it was not proven beyond reasonable doubt that the employer failed in its…
On Friday, 27 September 2025, six staff members at Launceston General Hospital in Tasmania reported feeling nauseated and faint while working in one of the operating theatres at approximately 2:40pm local time.…
This source document does not describe a workplace accident, injury, fatality, or emergency incident. It is a legal news story about a wage-theft class action lawsuit filed by junior doctors against Tasmanian…
On Wednesday, 17 June 2020, Gerard Dezoete, 56, fell to his death from a scissor lift on a commercial construction site in central Launceston, Tasmania. The experienced tradesman stepped backward off the…
In February 2021, Greg Longmore, a newly hired worker at Adams Distillery in Perth, Tasmania, sustained severe burns to 40 per cent of his body when a gin still caught fire during…
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