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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RegulatorWorkplace Health and Safety Queensland
Introduction A man died following a workplace incident at a business in Tingalpa, in Brisbane’s east, on 17 April 2026. Emergency services were called to Wynnym Road at around 6.40am after the…
RegulatorWorkSafe WA
A 38-year-old man died and a 32-year-old man was seriously injured in a vehicle rollover on an access road to the King of the Hills gold mine near Leonora in Western Australia’s…
RegulatorSafeWork NSW
On Tuesday, 8 February 2022, French apprentice jockey Marina Morel, 30, died four days after a fall during trackwork at the Gulgong Turf Club in western New South Wales. She was riding…
A man died after suffering an electric shock while at work in Emu Plains in Sydney's west on 13 March 2026. Emergency services were called to Billington Place at about 1.30pm following…
On 11 March 2026, the NSW Government announced new enforcement measures by SafeWork NSW targeting psychosocial hazards in the workplace, including the power to issue on-the-spot fines to non-compliant employers. The announcement…
Two patients died and four others became seriously ill after contracting fungal infections at Sydney’s Royal Prince Alfred Hospital last year. Sydney Local Health District (SLHD) has confirmed it is investigating a…
RegulatorSafeWork SA
A South Australian court sentenced Adelaide mother Crystal Hanley to 17 years’ jail after she admitted to criminally neglecting her six-year-old daughter, Charlie, who later died. The case relates to events at…
RegulatorWorkSafe Victoria
St Basil's aged care facility in Fawkner has been fined $150,000 following a COVID-19 outbreak in 2020 that the court heard led to the deaths of 45 residents within a month. ABC…
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