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A NSW employer that failed to provide designated walkways and crossing points around plant has been fined $120,000, after a supervisor's foot was crushed and partially amputated in an unguarded conveyor unit.

An employer unfairly sacked a train driver for allegedly breaching the new national rail safety laws, after he failed a drug and alcohol test when he attended work for a meeting, the Fair Work Commission has found.

Workers warned about spiders in PPE, and cheater bars; and Second NSW employer fined over runaway forklift incident.

A storeman who was seriously injured when he was struck by heavy rolls of underlay, which fell from an incorrectly loaded truck, is likely to be awarded nearly $6 million in damages, after the NSW Supreme Court found two employers were equally liable for the incident.

A NSW employer that failed to ensure its workers inspected forklifts at another employer's site before using them has been fined $80,000, after a delivery driver was pinned between a faulty forklift and his truck.

A NSW principal contractor has become the second entity to be fined over the death of a company director, after the Industrial Court found it failed to ensure a contractor's 42 safe work method statements were relevant to the site where the incident occurred.

A principal contractor, which failed to ensure a safety warning was conveyed to all site visitors, has been found vicariously liable for an employee's carelessness.

A NSW employer and its director have become the sixth and seventh parties to be fined over a workplace fall, which left an inexperienced construction worker with severe head injuries.

Two NSW employers that failed to implement an isolation procedure or SWMS for plant, or roster supervisors onto weekend night shifts, have been ordered to pay nearly $400,000 in fines and costs, after a worker was fatally crushed between hydraulic rams.

A NSW worker, who was injured after being pressured by supervisors to work at a fast pace, has had his damages increased by more than $240,000 on appeal.