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A court has ordered two companies to pay more than $1.6 million in damages to a labour-hire worker, who was injured performing a "mundane" task that was unsafe because it "included a tripping hazard as an integral part of its operation".

An employer has failed to convince a tribunal that lifting and twisting doesn't cause hernias, in seeking to avoid liability for an injury it argued was "almost certainly pre-existing".

The serious injuries sustained by a worker when she fell down her stairs at home were consequent upon previous workplace injuries, a commission has ruled, rejecting medical opinions that the events were unrelated.

An employer has unsuccessfully challenged a hearing-loss claim by contending most of its equipment satisfied workplace health and safety requirements for lack of noisiness, with a commission finding at least one of its leaf blowers didn't fit into this category.

A worker who fell and injured herself after she left her workplace to turn her car light off is entitled to compensation under "recess" laws, a commission has ruled, finding she had the "implied authority" to attend to her car.

An injured worker has unsuccessfully claimed his "threatened dismissal" would be unfair if he wasn't granted more time to obtain a fitness assessment. A commission heard he was not entitled to "infinite" chances to defend his employment, and found he had been afforded sufficient time to obtain the report.

An employer has been found liable for the psychological injury sustained by a worker who resisted getting a COVID-19 vaccine. The employer unreasonably failed to correct his mistaken belief he'd lost his job, a commission found.

An injured worker who was assessed as being at "high risk" of relapsing into alcohol misuse has won a reinstatement order, with a commission finding her 18-month abstinence suggested she was fit for employment.

An employer that was found to have negligently caused a worker to crash his car while driving home from a 12-hour shift has overturned the ruling, with an appeals court finding: there was insufficient evidence to suggest fatigue caused the crash; and the employer had fulfilled its common law duty of care.

A worker has failed to overturn a ruling that his health condition, aggravated from having to wear a mask at work at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, was not compensable.