An employer has been fined for failing to instruct personnel on the risks associated with a maintenance task, after a worker sustained head injuries, while a man who was bitten by a red back spider at work has been convicted for over-claiming nearly $15,000 in treatment travel costs.
An injured worker has been granted permission, on appeal, to sue a ladder manufacturer, which owned the company that engaged him to perform height work.
Damages awarded to a worker, whose injuries were caused by her employer's OHS breaches, have been increased by $13,500 on appeal, but not to $1.46 million, as the worker claimed they should be.
A major employer that was aware of a worker's psychiatric vulnerability, but left her under the supervision of an abrasive manager, has been ordered to pay her $625,345 in damages.
An injured worker has blocked her work capacity assessment from being referred to a medical panel, while an insurer has been ordered to provide an agoraphobic worker with a $7800 scooter trailer to help him socialise.
A worker has failed to convince a superior court that a workers' compensation medical panel denied him procedural fairness by focusing on his cannabis use.
An employer that adopted a reactive approach to repairing faults, instead of a proactive system of inspection and maintenance, has been ordered to pay $688,000 in damages to a worker who tripped over a redundant floor fixture.
A company has been fined for failing to ensure employees could competently assess load weights for mobile plant, after a young worker's leg was amputated, while a business operator has been handed a suspended prison sentence for fraudulently obtaining workers' comp reimbursements on behalf of employers.
A medical panel determined that an injured machine operator had capacity for work without disclosing its "path of reasoning", including on why it decided his limited English was good enough for some roles and not others, a superior court has ruled in quashing the determination.
