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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RegulatorSafeWork NSW
On Saturday, 7 September 2019, Samuela Cirivakayawa, a 40-year-old employee of A1 Arbor Tree Services, was killed when he was drawn into a woodchipper while hand-feeding branches at a work site in…
On Monday, 30 October 2023, 20-year-old tradesman Connor Pringle sustained critical injuries after a fall at a construction site in Burradoo in the Southern Highlands region of New South Wales. He was…
RegulatorWorkSafe WA
Between August 2020 and March 2022, four workers at Jinning Pty Ltd's assay laboratory in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, were exposed to dangerously high levels of lead due to the company's failure to…
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…
RegulatorWorkSafe Tasmania
On an unspecified date in 2023, a stable hand employed by Ben Yole stables in Tasmania sustained serious injuries in a vehicle crash at 1:45 AM while returning from Elwick racecourse in…
RegulatorWorkSafe Victoria
In March 2021, a female employee at Polymaster, a Victorian water tank manufacturer, suffered a severe traumatic injury when her thumb was severed by an industrial sander during routine machinery operation. The…
RegulatorWorkplace Health and Safety Queensland
On Wednesday, 26 June 2019, David Routledge, a 55-year-old coal miner, was killed when a high wall collapsed during excavation operations at Middlemount Mine, located southwest of Mackay in central Queensland. He…
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…
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