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A Western Australian mining company has successfully appealed a decision ordering its retrial over the death of a young worker at a workplace intersection.

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

• 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.

• UK employer fined $700k over "predictable" death;
  
• SWA and WA release fatality report and alerts;
  
• Individual fined for dangerous goods storage breaches; and
  
• Couple fined $40k for helmet breaches.

An employer was negligent in failing to ensure a truck was loaded in an orderly and timely manner, but it doesn't have to pay an injured worker damages, the Western Australian District Court has ruled.

• Fatalities highlight need for individual JSAs;
  
• Forklift complaints in log book ignored prior to death; and
  
• Anti-bullying claims rate falls despite recent prediction.

• Gap in palletiser fence leads to death and $100k fine;
  
• Alerts issued after deaths and other incidents in three states; and
  
• Western Australians urged to attend seminars on green WHS Bill.

An employer has failed in its renewed bid to recover $53,000 in workers' comp payments, after the Western Australian Court of Appeal rejected its claim that a building owner was negligent in failing to touch up the yellow paint on a trip hazard.

• WorkSafe WA granted leave to pursue liquidated company after four industry deaths; and
  
• Employer fined over death three years after initial prosecution.

• Employers fined $470k over death and fatigue breaches;
  
• SA's presumptive cancer comp laws extended to volunteers; and
  
• Workers killed in nine industries in July, while five workers killed in 11 days.