ANZ liable for trip on office cabling
In a decision that sends a warning to all duty holders, a major company has been ordered to pay nearly $600,000 in damages to a worker who tripped on office cables.
In a decision that sends a warning to all duty holders, a major company has been ordered to pay nearly $600,000 in damages to a worker who tripped on office cables.
An employer has been found not guilty of fatality-related WHS charges, after a judge found its verbal instructions were adequate, and it wasn't foreseeable that a drug-impaired worker and his colleague would defy their safety training.
A worker who injured his knee falling off a ladder has been denied $720,000 in damages, after a court found he failed to prove that excessive workplace dust caused him to slip or that the site's head contractor had acted negligently.
The nurse who sought damages in the world's first lawsuit involving post-traumatic stress disorder as a "bodily injury" was awarded nearly $4.4 million, plus funds management fees, the NSW Supreme Court has revealed today.
A NSW employer and its director have been fined more than $500,000 after a worker fell to his death through an unguarded penetration. The verdict came just weeks after the employer and a related company were fined $254,000 (with costs) for illegally dumping asbestos on the same site.
An injured worker has been refused $700,000 in damages, after the NSW Court of Appeal rejected his account of the mechanism of injury.
A mechanic who was sacked after the wheels fell off a bus he had worked on would have been aware of the correct maintenance procedures if he read the work order properly, a commission has found.
A company has been ordered to pay $515,000, instead of $872,000, to a worker with debilitating PTSD, after the NSW Supreme Court found the worker's funds could be managed by a less expensive trustee than the one selected by her mother.
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