Work accident feed · Industry
Deaths and serious injuries on farms, stations and orchards, and the investigations that follow.
Part of the Work accident feed: 402 records across all industries.
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RegulatorWorkSafe Victoria
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…
In November 2020, a 29-year-old worker was fatally electrocuted at the Gerang Gerung property near Wimmera in regional Victoria while operating a telehandler to stack hay bales. The machine contacted overhead power…
In January 2022, a 70-year-old employee fell from a trailer attached to a tractor near Swan Hill in Woorinen South, Victoria, sustaining fatal head injuries. The worker was employed by contractor AH…
RegulatorWorkplace Health and Safety Queensland
In late July 2020, a harvester operator was fatally electrocuted when the machine contacted or came into close proximity with an overhead powerline on farmland in Queensland. Five other workers at the…
On Wednesday, 14 July 2021, a 25-year-old worker, Cody Smith, was electrocuted at Lake Mary Pines farm in Bungundarra, near Yeppoon on Queensland's Capricorn Coast. Five other workers also received electric shocks…
RegulatorWorkSafe WA
On Wednesday, 30 October 2023, Joshua McAllan, a farm worker from Dandaragan in Western Australia's Wheatbelt region, became trapped when his leg was caught in a potato harvester being towed by a…
RegulatorSafeWork NSW
Olive-farm owner Christopher Duncan died after he was crushed by a harvesting machine at Bumbaldry, New South Wales, on 26 May 2023. The NSW Industrial Court judgment later recorded the circumstances and…
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