Work accident feed · Industry
Deaths and serious injuries on construction sites and during building maintenance work, and the investigations that follow.
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RegulatorWorkplace Health and Safety Queensland
A construction site on Brisbane’s Boundary Street has become the scene of a devastating workplace tragedy, with a 45-year-old man killed and a 19-year-old man seriously injured after a retaining wall suddenly…
A 15-year-old boy has died after a tragic workplace incident on the Gold Coast, prompting grief across the community and investigations by Queensland authorities. The teenager, Beau Bradford, suffered critical injuries while…
RegulatorSafeWork NSW
On an unspecified date in November 2025, a contractor in his 20s was fatally struck by a falling steel beam while working on the Number Six blast furnace at BlueScope Steel's Port…
A 37-year-old window cleaner is fighting for life after suffering a shattered skull, severe brain injury and multiple fractures in a fall from a residential rooftop in Sydney’s inner south. Luis “Lucho”…
On Thursday, 6 November 2025, a 45-year-old construction worker was struck and killed by a material transfer vehicle at a worksite on the New England Highway at Tarro, near Newcastle in the…
On Thursday, 6 November 2025, a 34-year-old Sydney Trains worker died after being trapped in a cherry picker that collided with a disused railway bridge on Inch Street, Lithgow, in New South…
RegulatorWorkSafe WA
On Sunday, 2 November 2025, a man in his 60s died following critical injuries sustained while moving a transportable home on a vacant block in South Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. Emergency services were…
On Sunday, 2 November 2025, a man in his 60s died following a workplace accident while helping to move a transportable home onto a truck trailer on a vacant property in South…
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