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The mother of a young worker impaled on a steel rod has been awarded more than $200,000 for post-traumatic stress linked to the incident, while her son has been awarded $520,000, and two negligent companies have been ordered to foot most of the bill.

A school payroll officer with "brain fog" and a respiratory illness has lost her bid for compensation, after failing to prove that mould in her workplace's air-conditioning system and other areas caused her condition.

A worker who claimed he was psychologically injured from being required to perform a hazardous task without personal protective equipment, and being bullied by managers and co-workers, has been denied compensation in a case examining the "perception of real events".

An appeals commission has quashed a decision denying a worker the costs of the "novel" treatment of medicinal cannabis for his chronic pain from a work injury.

An employer that responded to a complaint about the tone of a worker's emails by levelling a string of accusations against him has failed to prove his psychological injury arose from reasonable disciplinary action.

A company has lost its appeal against a compensation order for an injured worker it suspended, with a commission upholding a finding that the employer restricted her ability to defend herself against allegations of misconduct.

A union's proposed orders for an employer to put a medically retired worker on a recovery plan was not viable because it contained no mechanisms for reviewing his work capacity and "would operate in seeming perpetuity", a commission has found.

A council worker has failed in her bid for compensation for the aggravation of an underlying psychological injury, with her expert witnesses failing to consider non-work-related matters that contributed to her mental decline.

A ruling that a worker's knife-attack injuries weren't compensable, because of a possible drug-dealing connection, has been revoked for misapplying the "course of employment" test and considering "irrelevant matters".

A company that supplied a 200 kilogram door to a worksite did not owe a safety duty of care to a worker who sustained serious injuries trying to lift the door at the site, an appeals court has found in setting aside a ruling against the company.