Work accident feed · Industry
Deaths and serious injuries on farms, stations and orchards, and the investigations that follow.
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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…
On Monday, February 1, 2021, Harley Muir, a 29-year-old worker, was killed when he became entangled in a multibaler machine at HAV Proprietary Limited's facility near Bendigo in Victoria. Mr. Muir sustained…
On a day in January 2022, a 70-year-old Afghan national, Jafar Bunyad, fell from a moving fruit-bin trailer at the intersection of North South Road and Reserve Road in Woorinen South, north-west…
In the early hours of Tuesday, 3 February 2025, a wind turbine at Berrybank Wind Farm near Geelong in western Victoria collapsed during severe thunderstorms, with wind gusts recorded at up to…
On Tuesday, 12 November 2024, a worker was fatally crushed by a turbine blade at the Golden Plains Wind Farm near Beaufort in Victoria. The incident occurred during maintenance or assembly work…
On Friday, 27 September 2024, an 84-year-old farmer died after losing control of a tractor while spraying an orchard on his property in Red Hill on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria. Emergency services…
On Friday, 28 February 2024, 61-year-old Mick Morcom, a respected farmer from Wimmera, was fatally struck on the head by a tipping auger while cleaning seed on his farm near Warracknabeal in…
On Thursday, 12 November 2020, 29-year-old employee Adrian Wilde was fatally electrocuted at Harmony Operations' Wagyu beef feedlot near Gerang Gerung in western Victoria. Wilde was operating a telehandler to move hay…
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