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Deaths and serious injuries on farms, stations and orchards, and the investigations that follow.
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RegulatorWorkplace Health and Safety Queensland
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…
A Queensland sweet potato farming company and its director have been fined $48,500 after unlawfully deducting thousands of dollars from dozens of Pacific Island workers employed under the federal labour mobility scheme.…
One of Queensland’s largest sugar processors, Mackay Sugar, has been fined $100,000 after a workplace accident left an employee with severe hand injuries. The court found that poor maintenance and lack of…
On Thursday, 3 July 2025, a 27-year-old worker was fatally injured in a machinery incident at Clarke Creek Wind Farm, located northwest of Rockhampton in central Queensland. Despite immediate emergency treatment at…
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…
On an unspecified date in 2025, 46-year-old farmer Jay Higgins sustained fatal injuries while attempting to castrate a young calf on his family farm near Donnybrook in Western Australia. An elastrator tool…
RegulatorSafeWork NSW
On Thursday, 22 October 2025, a 29-year-old man died after a canoe capsized on a farm dam at Clover Hills, Jaunter, south of Oberon in the NSW Central West. A second worker,…
In October 2024, two 30-metre-tall grain silos collapsed at Manildra Group's Shoalhaven Starches facility near Bomaderry in New South Wales. Following the incident, SafeWork NSW conducted intensive inspections between February and March…
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