Incident records by state and territory
Workplace deaths, serious injuries and the investigations, prosecutions and inquests that follow, across Australia.
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Incidents and their outcomes, by state and territory
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RegulatorWorkSafe WA
On Wednesday, 8 April 2024, two men were killed in separate workplace incidents in Western Australia. A man in his 20s died in a forklift accident at Huggett Drive, Dalwallinu at approximately…
RegulatorWorkSafe Victoria
In June 2021, a worker at Global Ballooning Australia's operations center in Dixon's Creek fell approximately three metres through a fiberglass skylight while cleaning gutters, sustaining a fractured spine. The company delayed…
On 3 April 2024, the University of Melbourne conceded in Federal Court that it failed to offer further employment contracts to a casual academic after she filed a claim for additional work…
In May 2021, a truck driver attending Arrow Worldwide's West Melbourne warehouse to collect a load suffered catastrophic injuries when a bundle of 12-meter-long steel beams toppled from a flatbed trailer and…
On Thursday, 28 March 2024, a truck driver sustained life-changing injuries when a pack of 12-meter-long steel beams dislodged from a semi-trailer and struck him during a routine pick-up at Arrow Worldwide's…
On Tuesday, 26 March 2024, a 56-year-old worker died three days after falling approximately 2 metres from a platform while pouring concrete at a residential construction site in Doncaster East, Melbourne. The…
RegulatorWorkplace Health and Safety Queensland
On Saturday, 23 March 2024, Jerromy Brookes, a 47-year-old, died following a snake bite sustained while attempting to remove a snake from Green Leaves Early Learning Centre in Burdell, Townsville, Queensland. The…
The provided source material is an opinion article about non-disclosure agreements in sexual harassment cases, dated 22 March 2024. It does not describe a workplace accident, incident, injury, fatality, or emergency response…
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