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A court has found that a man's post-traumatic stress disorder arose from a workplace electric shock, but awarded him just a fraction of his $330,000 damages claim.

A worker who was struck in the head by a falling object has been awarded $327,000 in damages, after a court found her brain injury prevented her from seeking her dream job.

A worker has been refused $290,000 in damages for a back injury, but a supreme court judge found her employer did negligently expose her and others to a building's unsafe access point.

A psychologically injured worker has been denied compensation, after a commission found the work-related stressors that allegedly caused his mental breakdown were probably hallucinations.

An employer has been ordered to pay damages to a worker who injured his back while trying to keep up with an unreasonably fast production line.

A worker who was retrenched, shortly after returning to work after a back injury, suffered stress and sadness from losing his job, but not a compensable psych injury, a commissioner has found.

A worker who developed PTSD after being jailed overseas, for allegedly s-xually assaulting a colleague, has been denied workers' compensation.

A manager's response to a worker's s-xual harassment complaint was "entirely misplaced in a work environment", a commission has found in awarding the woman compensation for a psychological injury.

A court has halved an injured worker's damages award after finding he failed to isolate a pipe before sustaining foot burns and PTSD.

A commission deputy president has stressed that PPE isn't fail-safe, in finding a worker's bacterial infection arose from exposure to faeces and vomit at work.