Work accident feed · Industry
Deaths and serious injuries on farms, stations and orchards, and the investigations that follow.
Part of the Work accident feed: 379 records across all industries.
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RegulatorSafeWork NSW
Davis Lausii, a Tongan mechanic working in Australia under the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme, suffered a serious workplace injury while repairing a nut-harvesting machine at Kerarbury Orchard near Darlington Point…
Wumbulgal Agriculture was fined $555,000 after an 82-year-old worker died in a quad-bike crash on a property at Yenda in the New South Wales Riverina region. The ABC reported the Industrial Relations…
Callum Smail, a 26-year-old farmer, died in a motorbike crash on a station near Broken Hill, the ABC reported on 27 May 2026. His family said he died on 13 April, two…
RegulatorWorkplace Health and Safety Queensland
Wilson Sprague, a 27-year-old helicopter pilot and stockman, died in a crash while tracking a bushfire near Kowanyama in Queensland. The ABC reported the circumstances and his family’s memories on 7 June…
Two serious incidents involving falling hay bales in southern Queensland have prompted Farmsafe Australia to issue an urgent safety warning to producers across the state. The incidents — occurring within days of…
On Wednesday, 14 July 2021, 25-year-old Cody Smith was fatally electrocuted when a pineapple harvester came into contact with a sagging high-voltage power line at Lake Mary Pines near Bungundarra, approximately 50…
RegulatorWorkSafe Victoria
A labour hire provider and a potato and onion wholesaler have been fined following a workplace accident in which a woman lost several fingers after her hand became trapped in machinery. The…
RegulatorWorkSafe WA
On Saturday, 25 October 2025, a 63-year-old man died in a workplace incident at a farming property in Merredin, Western Australia, approximately 260 kilometres north-east of Perth. The fatality occurred during silo…
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