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A national employer has been fined at the upper limit of a penalty range recommended by Comcare, after the Federal Court found it failed to act on a foreseeable and easy-to-fix forklift risk for nearly two months before a worker sustained serious head injuries.

• Director sentenced to home detention for NZ safety breach;
  
• Victorian individual fined after contractor burnt; and
  
• Safe Rates Tribunal launches two inquiries.

An employer has been found not guilty of failing to ensure the safety of three contractors, after the NSW District Court found it had adequate measures to control the risk of hazardous plant and materials.

• 457-visa investigation prompts broad workers' comp warning;
  
• Dangerous goods breaches cost employer $90k; and
  
• New judge appointed to Dust Diseases Tribunal.

The Queensland Coroner has recommended that Australian Standards for mobile cranes be amended to address free-fall functions, after a worker was killed when he was struck by a section of a power-line tower.

• WA employer and worker fined over electrocution; and
  
• Dangerous goods users warned about lightning.

• Victoria launches review into WorkSafe and TAC;
  
• Employer handed $24k bill after truck-loading incident;
  
• WorkSafe WA outlines safety rules for slinging loads;
  
• WorkCover NSW flags special Code for horse work; and
  
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The NSW Coroner has outlined how practical jokes played on a young apprentice during his employment with a major company significantly contributed to his depression and subsequent suicide.

• Crane designer fined for safety breach in WA first;
  
• New harmonised mining and rail laws start in NSW; and
  
• New report shows work death toll much higher than predicted.

A major fast food employer that was fined in 2006, for failing to ensure an injured worker received adequate first aid and medical treatment, has been fined again for an almost identical breach, this time after a worker suffered third-degree burns.